Mitch Albom Quotes

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

~ Mitch Albom

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

~ Mitch Albom

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

~ Mitch Albom

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

~ Mitch Albom

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

~ Mitch Albom

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

~ Mitch Albom

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.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 begins.

~ Mitch Albom

...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

~ Mitch Albom

Every family is a ghost story.

~ Mitch Albom

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

~ Mitch Albom

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

~ Mitch Albom

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

~ Mitch Albom

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

~ Mitch Albom

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

~ Mitch Albom

And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you ,love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day.

~ Mitch Albom

All who are born are always dying.

~ Mitch Albom

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

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

~ Mitch Albom

Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

~ Mitch Albom

What is it?”“A prayer.”“For a child?”She nodded.“For me?”Another nod.“On a tree?”“Trees spend all day looking up at God.

~ Mitch Albom

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

~ Mitch Albom

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

~ Mitch Albom

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

~ Mitch Albom

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

~ Mitch Albom

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

~ Mitch Albom

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. He finally whispered, We also need to forgive ourselves.

~ Mitch Albom

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.

~ Mitch Albom

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

~ Mitch Albom

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

~ Mitch Albom

In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

~ Mitch Albom

Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?He made a fist.Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson.What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers.We can take nothing with us.

~ Mitch Albom

I don't know what it is about the 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

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

~ Mitch Albom

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.

~ Mitch Albom

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

~ Mitch Albom

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

~ Mitch Albom

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

~ Mitch Albom