Mitch Albom Quotes

What is false about hope?

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

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

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

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.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.

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

intentions. That’s important in music, too. Critically important. What you’re thinking about can be what you become.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time — we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

Every life has one true love snapshot.

As long as we can love eachother, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still here. All the memories are still there. You live on — in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were hear… Death ends a life, not a relationship.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.