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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 5

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There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

Mothers Day, Mom, Stories

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Memories, Home, Thinking

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.28, Hachette UK

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

Rotten, About Yourself, One More Day

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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

Silence, Refuge, Silence Is

Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.85, Hachette UK

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

Pain, Appreciate, Suffering

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

Lying, One More Day

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

Mother, Memories, Food

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.44, Hachette UK

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Grateful, Men, Use

"The Time Keeper". Book by Mitch Albom, September 4, 2012.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Party, Life Is Like, Needs

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

Past, Trying, Persons

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Scenery, Solace, Meaningless

Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.28, Hachette UK

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Death, Life Changing, Forgiving

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.164, Broadway Books

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Beautiful, Heart, Breathing

FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Apr 13, 2011

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Family, Children, Believe

Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

Baby, Couple, Night

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

Yesterday, Tomorrow, Ends

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.115, Hachette UK

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

War, Said

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

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

Bye, Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Family, Sticking It, Togetherness

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Careers, Missing, Want

I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.

Mom, Powerful, Brain

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

Missing, Way, Sometimes

Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.147, Hachette UK

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Love You, Hard Work, Belief

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.110, Hachette UK

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Reality, Getting Older, Atheism

Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

Expression, Long, Mind

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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