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Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
Mitch Albom
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
Mitch Albom
No one gets left behind, remember?
Mitch Albom
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
Mitch Albom
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
Mitch Albom
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.
Mitch Albom
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
Mitch Albom
You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
Mitch Albom
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
Mitch Albom
I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
Mitch Albom
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
Mitch Albom
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.
Mitch Albom
Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.
Mitch Albom
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
Mitch Albom
What if I lose you? You can't lose your mother, Charley.
Mitch Albom
...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Mitch Albom
So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said Are you going to tell me? Yes.Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be greatful. That's it? For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. That's it.
Mitch Albom
Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
Mitch Albom
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Mitch Albom
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
Mitch Albom