Mitch Albom Quotes

Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

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

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate onw life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

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

heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

"Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?'" He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. "Is today the day I die?" he said.

Do not cry over losing blood. Not for something you love.

"You've lived through a lot of wars, I said.
"Yes."
Do they ever make more sense?
"No.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

YOU TAKA MY SPACE
I BREAKA YOUR FACE

If you hold back on the emotions — if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them — you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them