Mitch Albom Quotes

What is it?”
“A prayer.”
“For a child?”
She nodded.
“For me?”
Another nod.
“On a tree?”
“Trees spend all day looking up at God.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...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.

He didn't understand depression. To him it was weakness.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.

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

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.

"Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between"

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!