Mitch Albom Quotes

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

~ Mitch Albom

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

~ Mitch Albom

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

Every life has one true love snapshot.

~ Mitch Albom

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

~ Mitch Albom

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back.”“That does not make you a fool, either.”“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”“Sometimes never.

~ Mitch Albom

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

~ Mitch Albom

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

~ Mitch Albom

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

~ Mitch Albom

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

~ Mitch Albom

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

~ Mitch Albom

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...

~ Mitch Albom

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

~ Mitch Albom

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

~ Mitch Albom

Going back to something is harder than you think.

~ Mitch Albom

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

~ Mitch Albom

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

~ Mitch Albom

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

~ Mitch Albom

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

~ Mitch Albom

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

~ Mitch Albom

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

~ Mitch Albom

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

~ Mitch Albom

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

~ Mitch Albom

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

~ Mitch Albom

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

~ Mitch Albom

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom