Mitch Albom Quotes

"He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like?
"We will hold hands," Morrie said. "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.

The little things, I can obey. The big things — how we think, what we value — those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone — or any society — determine those for you.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

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

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a world with a little less God in it, and yet, because God is not a diminishing resource, I cannot believe that.

...the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.

Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.

She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't

Secrets tear you apart.

Sully: I never said good-bye
Giselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody

She had a bottomless well of love for me.