Mitch Albom
90 quotes
Biography
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."
"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."
"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
"Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."
"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
"One day spent with someone you love can change everything."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"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"
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
"No life is a waste,"the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone."
"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."
"Love wins, love always wins."
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work."
"Every life has one true love snapshot."
"But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."
"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them."
"Going back to something is harder than you think."
"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."