Mitch Albom Quotes

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

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

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

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

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

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

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

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

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

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Tension of opposites.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

We're Tuesday people.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

What will you do with the time you have left?

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.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.