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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.
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Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
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What will you do with the time you have left?
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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A heart weighs more when it splits in two it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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