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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 6

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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

Teacher, Tuesdays With Morrie, Jewels

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.192, Broadway Books

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Running, Lying, Two

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.123, Hachette UK

One day can bend your life.

One Day, One More Day

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Voice, Secret, Needs

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

Next, Worried, Ifs

Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

Children, People, Zealous

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Men, Heaven, Secret

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

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Positive, Sacrifice, Losing

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

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Mean, People, Doe

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.154, Broadway Books

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Believe, Said, Knows

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

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

Xanax, Sadness, Our World

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

Rivers, Stories, Stones

Mitch Albom (2009). “Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson”, p.114, Hachette UK

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.

Heart, Long, People

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.40, Hachette UK

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

Yesterday, Heaven, Make Sense

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

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Inspirational, Life, Substitutes

FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Mar 13, 2017

Going back to something is harder than you think.

Thinking, Harder, One More Day

Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.90, Hachette UK

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Hurt, Kids, Parenting

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.60, Hachette UK

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Giving, Comforting, Way

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Book, Comfort, Genuine

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Family, Stranger, Knows

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

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Memories, Men, Shells

Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.74, Hachette UK

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

Men, Blue, Life And Death

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

Mortality, Made

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

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

Hurtful, Insult, Sometimes

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Problem, Deals, Being Old

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

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