Mitch Albom Quotes: 71

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

  The Five People You Meet In Heaven

• Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

• 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.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

  For One More Day

• Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

  For One More Day

• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

• One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

  For One More Day

• Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• 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...

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• No life is a waste,"the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

• Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

  Have a Little Faith: a True Story

• Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

• Love wins, love always wins.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Every life has one true love snapshot.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

  For One More Day

• Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

  For One More Day

• Going back to something is harder than you think.

  For One More Day

• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

  For One More Day

• It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

  For One More Day

• When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

  The Time Keeper

• She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

  For One More Day

• There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.

  For One More Day

• I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back.”“That does not make you a fool, either.”“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”“Sometimes never.

  The Time Keeper

• In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

• Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

  The Time Keeper

• It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

• Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

  The Time Keeper

• Kids chase the love that eludes them.

  For One More Day

• Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

  For One More Day

• It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  For One More Day

• We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

  For One More Day

• So, have we solved the secret of happiness?"I believe so,"he saidAre 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.

  Have a Little Faith: a True Story

• There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things"-he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

  Tuesdays with Morrie

• Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

• Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

  Tuesdays with Morrie

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