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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Want, Life Is, Don't Take Anything For Granted

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

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Eye, Different

...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

Mother, Daughter, Regret

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

Measuring

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Confused, Arms

You're not listening with your eyes.

Eye, Listening

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

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Wings, Broken, Bird

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

Wise, Children, Men

Love wins, love always wins.

Sweet Love, Winning, Love Always

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

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

Wrestling, Winning, Opposites

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Grandma, Heaven, Done

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

Fate, Way, Connected

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.123, Hachette UK

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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

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?

Heart, Found Someone, Giving

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

Heaven

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.196, Hachette UK

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Heart, People, Giving

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

World, Emotion, Apathetic

"Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

Father, Hate, Moving

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Heaven, Unlikely, Found

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

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Believe, Important, Elements

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Knowing, Understanding, Knowing Something

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.87, Hachette UK

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Running, Morning, Night

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

Depression, Morning, Self

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Giving, Waiting, Forgiving

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.167, Broadway Books

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Country, Confusion, Chocolate

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