Mitch Albom Quotes

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

~ Mitch Albom

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed 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

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

~ Mitch Albom

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

~ Mitch Albom

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.

~ Mitch Albom

Accept who you are, and revel in it.

~ Mitch Albom

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

~ Mitch Albom

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.

~ Mitch Albom

Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

I think people believe what they want to believe.

~ Mitch Albom

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

~ Mitch Albom

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from 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.

~ Mitch Albom

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

~ Mitch Albom

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

~ Mitch Albom

you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it

~ Mitch Albom

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

~ Mitch Albom

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on--in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

~ Mitch Albom

And a man without memories is just a shell.

~ Mitch Albom

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

~ Mitch Albom

Time flies with you

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

~ Mitch Albom

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

~ Mitch Albom

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

~ Mitch Albom

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing, he was not about to powder its nose.

~ Mitch Albom

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

~ Mitch Albom

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

~ Mitch Albom

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

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some things you endure for a reason

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I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

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For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

~ Mitch Albom

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'Rose chuckled.But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

~ Mitch Albom