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You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
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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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The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
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Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?
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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.
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You are not your past.
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Kids chase the love that eludes them.
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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.
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When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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