Top 100 Mitch Albom Quotes
#1. When people don't believe in something, they're lost.
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#2. If we love something and somebody so much, how much - if at all - are they ever really gone from our hearts?
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#3. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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#6. I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.
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#7. The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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#9. Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.
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#11. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.
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#12. No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
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#13. In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.
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#14. You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you would later invoke many times with many of us: "try again." And you did. Thank God you did.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I needed help. Why didn't you help me? ... God ... forgives me. Why didn't you?
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#17. Without love, we are birds without wings
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#18. Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
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#19. Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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#20. Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
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#21. He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.
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#22. What is it?"
"A prayer."
"For a child?"
She nodded.
"For me?"
Another nod.
"On a tree?"
"Trees spend all day looking up at God.
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#23. Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?
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#24. Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive."
He smiled. "It helps you listen.
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#25. She says everyone you lose here, you find again there. Our family is all together. Her. My parents.
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#26. I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.
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#27. Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
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#28. I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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#29. But fates are connected in ways we don't understand.
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#30. No soul remembered is ever really gone.
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#31. It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.
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#32. The classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went
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#33. You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way.
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#34. There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "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.
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#35. Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.
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#36. Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and now is my time to be seventy-eight.
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#37. If earthly mortals were being contacted by souls in heaven, Tess, a Catholic, had been the first.
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#38. The next morning, shortly after sunrise, the Reb was awakened for a sponge bath. It was quiet and early. The nurse bathed him gently, and he was singing and humming to her, alive with the day. Then his head slumped and his music stopped forever.
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#40. Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'
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#41. Remember this, Francisco," he said. "The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.
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#42. Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide
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#43. That holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments,
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#44. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
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#45. And one day spent with someone you love can change everything. I
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#46. You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.
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#47. Without love, we are birds with broken wings
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#49. Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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#50. 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.
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#51. But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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#52. There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need ... you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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#53. 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.
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#54. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
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#55. But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
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#56. Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.
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#57. I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
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#58. Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
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#59. Living without love was
something he knew more about than any
soul on Earth. The more Sarah spoke of
loneliness, the clearer it became why he
was there.
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#60. There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
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#61. Love lost, is still love ... 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.
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#62. And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one.
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#63. Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities
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#64. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.
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#65. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
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#66. You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.
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#67. I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.
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#68. Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
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#70. If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.
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#71. I HAVE A HEARTBURN AND DIAHREA AT THE MOMENT
LIFE'S ABITCH. CHAT LATER?
[signed] SORE TUSH
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#72. You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them
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#73. A woman has been chosen. The gift of heaven on earth. This will become the biggest story in the world. Coldwater, Michigan. Ask a man of God. One call will confirm everything.
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#74. There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
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#75. If you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."
She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.
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#76. But daughters have their own lives. You can't smother them. She'll get married. Have children.
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#77. 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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#78. With Marguerite, he wanted only time - more and more time - and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
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#79. What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.
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#80. People are only mean when they are threatened.
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#81. All weddings ... It never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all records.
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#82. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me
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#83. Still what I miss most, simple and maybe selfish as it sounds, is the twinkle in Morrie's eyes when I came in the room. But When someone is happy-genuninely happy-to see you, it melts you from the start. It is like going home.
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#84. Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.
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#85. I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.
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#86. They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
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#87. You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically.
I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.
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#88. Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.
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#89. Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy
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#90. Things change when you're not in danger anymore.
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#91. Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.
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#92. The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down ...
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#93. I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I
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#94. The slightest human contact was immediate joy.
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#95. This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
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#96. The day he learned that he was terminally ill was the day he lost interest in his purchasing power.
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#97. The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.
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#98. But her absence was like a character in it.
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#99. Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily ... and the other ends badly.
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#100. Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
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