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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 11

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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?

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?

Bird, Needs, Want

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.81, Broadway Books

Lost love is still love.

Lost Love, Love Is, Lost

Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

Regret, Sacrifice, Thinking

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Men, Want, Existence

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.189, Hachette UK

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

Writing, Problem, Critics

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

Way, Emotion, Busy

I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.

Running, Thinking, Media

Source: www.npr.org

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.

People, Guilty, Cursing

Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

Eyebrows, One Day, Sage

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.

Commitment, Ties, Being Positive

Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

Hurt, Voice, Doe

It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

Watches, Someone You Love, Difficult

CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com. 2001.

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.

Mean, Thinking, Forever

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

Silence, Comfort, Noise

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.

Fun, Done, Instruments

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

Heart, Two, Broken

People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

Grateful, Men, Rocks

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

Natural, Made, Contagious

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.172, Broadway Books

but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

Phones, Roots, Rivers

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

College, Thinking, Early Education

Source: www.npr.org

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.

Writing, Mean, Rocks

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

Morning, Sunset, Night

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.

Travel, Mean, Tuesdays With Morrie

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.103, Broadway Books

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.

Believe, Corn Flakes, Needs

"Mitch Albom Wants You To 'Have A Little Faith'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 19, 2009.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

Running, Mean, Thinking

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.155, Broadway Books

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