Mitch Albom

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days

That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.

Morrie believed in the inherent good of people. But he also saw what they could become. “People are only mean when they’re threatened,” he said later that day, “and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Remember this, Francisco,” he said. “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

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?

You really loved her?'
'I would have given my life.'
'Would you have taken it?'
'No, child,' he said.
'That is not ours to do.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.