Mitch Albom Quotes (127 Quotes)


    Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.







    Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.

    You have to work at creating your own culture.

    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.

    when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

    People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

    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.

    Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant 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. Life has to end. Love doesnt.


    You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

    My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a little grief that he was going to die.

    If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

    This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

    He thought I was just ignoring him, ... I told him that if I had gotten the letter, of course I would have called. And he just let it go as if it never happened.

    You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

    Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when youre in the dark. Even when youre falling.

    People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theaters, they see the new Hard Rock Cafe, the Borders bookstore, the bars and restaurants, the loft conversions. You can't drive around and not see what's happening down here.

    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.

    Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

    Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right ... He could be research. A human textbook. 'Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.'

    Jeffrey was working from the book only. When I saw an early version of the play, I knew I had more to contribute notes and memories that didn't make it into the book. Jeffrey agreed to let me work with him, which was generous.

    No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.


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