That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it. (Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven")
We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true. (Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven")
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. (Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven")
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. (Mitch Albom, "Tuesdays with Morrie")
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place. (Mitch Albom, "Tuesdays with Morrie")
Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. (Mitch Albom, "Tuesdays with Morrie")