Top 100 Albom Quotes
#1. Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.
Dan Bejar
#2. Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.
John Burnham Schwartz
#3. But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
Mitch Albom
#4. Something is always happening somewhere.
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#5. I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.
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#7. When people don't believe in something, they're lost.
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#8. At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.
Mitch Albom
#9. When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
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#10. It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.
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#11. You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship]
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#12. You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
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#13. 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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#14. there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
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#15. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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#16. Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.
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#17. Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
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#20. In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.
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#21. When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
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#22. Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?"
"You bet," Morrie whispered.
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#23. The hands of a clock will find their way home.
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#24. Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.
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#25. Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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#26. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.
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#29. How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.
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#30. 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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#31. Loyalty ruled this woman's soul, but loyalty needs a partner.
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#32. Philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.
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#33. The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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#34. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
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#35. There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell
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#36. For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take
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#37. Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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#38. You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.
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#40. Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But
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#41. Dying is not in synonymous with Useless
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#42. Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
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#43. I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.
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#44. If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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#47. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here ... Death ends life, not a relationship.
Mitch Albom
#48. Please, please, please, please, please ... ,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
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#49. With a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.
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#50. Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.
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#51. Does this prove what we believe?"
"If you believe it, you don't need proof.
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#52. I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
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#54. I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All
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#55. For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
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#57. At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.
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#58. Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.
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#59. I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
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#60. The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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#61. When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.
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#62. I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
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#63. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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#64. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
Morrie Schwartz.
#65. It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.
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#66. Fear is how you lose your life ... a little bit at a time ... What we give to fear, we take away from ... faith.
Mitch Albom
#67. Ted," he said, "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'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
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#68. There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
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#69. I [Music] was born in the open air, in the breaks of waves and the whistling of sandstorms, the hoots of owls and the cackles of tui birds. I travel in echoes. I ride the breeze. I was forged in nature, rugged and raw. Only man shapes my edges to make me beautiful. [Chapter 2]
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#70. 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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#71. He stayed that way for a while, fallen man, porcelain angel, as if the two of them waited for a bus.
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#72. He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan"
Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own.
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#73. He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like it - and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.
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#74. What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.
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#75. We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
Mitch Albom
#76. Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind,
so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible.
Mitch Albom
#77. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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#78. I never said good-bye.'
'Such a needless word, she said, 'when you love somebody.
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#79. We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?
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#80. Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.
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#81. Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.
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#82. Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.
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#83. Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
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#84. No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Mitch Albom
#85. Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Never tell a child that something it's too hard
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#88. The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless
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#89. Every person on the planet-including Grace, Lorraine, Victor and Sarah- will instantly stop aging. And one person with start.
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#91. 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
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#92. Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
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#93. you should never take anything for granted.
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#94. In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.
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#95. The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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#96. This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless.
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#97. You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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#98. There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
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#99. What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next ... It is still unwritten.
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#100. Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.
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