Mitch Albom Quotes

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.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.

It has always been a mystery to me ... how beauty and anguish can share the same moment

"It's such a big world," She'd say wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere."

O amor perdido não deixa de ser amor. Apenas assume uma forma diferente. Não conseguimos ver o sorriso da pessoa amada, ou levar-lhe comida, ou mexer-lhe nos cabelos, ou rodopiar com ela numa pista de dança. Mas quando esses sentimentos enfraquecem, há outro que se sublime. A memória. A memória torna-se nossa companheira. Alimenta-nos. A vida tem um fim. Mas o Amor não.

His body had been weakened, the ocen had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took ahold of him, and in time, he died.'
Because of Mickey?' Eddie said.
Because of loyalty,' she said.
People don't die because of loyalty.'
They don't?' She smiled. 'Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?... Better,... to be loyal to one another.'
~pg 138

My father moved through theys of we,
singing each new leaf out of each tree,
(and every child was sure that spring
danced when she heard my father sing)...

"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. 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.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

"There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?"
Yes?
"Your belief in the importance of your marriage."