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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 13

All Quotes Age Aging Birth Childhood Children Choices College Commitment Community Country Culture Death Detachment Dying Earth Faith Family Feelings Fighting Generosity Giving Happiness Hate Heart Heaven Home Hurt Inspirational Joy Letting Go Life Life And Death Losing Lost Love Love Lying Memoir Memories Mom Morning Mortality Office Pain Past Positive Prayer Regret Running Sacrifice Silence Son Soul Sports Suffering Understanding Waiting War Winning Writing

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

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

Men, Life And Death, Good Man

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.

Children, Thinking, Wish

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.51, Hachette UK

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.

Running, Brother, Men

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

There is no formula to relationships.

Formulas

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.177, Broadway Books

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

Heart, Night, Lessons

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.49, Hachette UK

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

Alive, Said

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be? Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Morrie Schwartz

Love, Believe, Men

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Burdens Of Life, Storm, News

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Lines, Truth Is, Mess

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.9, Hachette UK

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

Heart, Fighting, Brain

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

College, Community, Attendance

"Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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.

Ghost Stories, Long, Gone

"For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

Choices, Missing, Sides

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

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Love And Marriage, Belief, Importance

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.149, Broadway Books

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Average, Perfection, I Realized

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

Stones, Outcast

Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.31, Hachette UK

You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

College, America, Community

"Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

Tension of opposites.

Opposites, Tension

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Kids, Elude, One More Day

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Punishment, Gone, Fixing

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

New Year, Night, Years

All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

Running, Prayer, Smart

Source: www.npr.org

First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.

Real, Kids, Effort

Source: www.npr.org

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

Waiting, Waiting For You, Hello

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Live Life, Waiting, Want

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.118, Broadway Books

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