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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 16

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

I love you every day, Mom

I love you every day, Mom

Mom, Love You

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

Towns, Small Town, Beats

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Wise, People, Finals

"The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

Children, Remember, Enjoy

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.116, Broadway Books

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Children, Believe, Childhood

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.16, Hachette UK

He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

Children, Long, Want

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.27, Hachette UK

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Wells, One More Day

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

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.

Children, Wipe, Remember

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.116, Broadway Books

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.

Thinking, Dying, Earth

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Mistake, Heart, People

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Giving Up, Differences, Giving

I worked because I could control it.

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.97, Broadway Books

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Mind, Together, Fantasy

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

Mother, Children, Nice

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

Together, Lasts, Kind

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

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Men, Doe, Want

"Mitch Albom’s ‘The Time Keeper’ Offers Wisdom for Days of Awe" by Rabbi Jason Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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.

Mother, Taken, Unconditional Love

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But 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...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

Pain, Grief, Mean

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.

Mother, Father, Believe

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

People, Next, Forgotten

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

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

Moments

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

Important, Details, Stories

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

Loyalty, Government, People

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

Long, Together, Time Together

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Mother, Forever, Stealing

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.36, Hachette UK

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