Mitch Albom Quotes

But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

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.

Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?”
Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye
and it’s like no time passed at all?”
His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.”
“With you,” she added.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

"Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

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

I HAVE A HEARTBURN AND DIAHREA AT THE MOMENT — LIFE'S ABITCH. CHAT LATER?

[signed] SORE TUSH

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

"I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart."

Dor came from a time before the written word, a time
when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools of
this era — phones, computers — enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they
accomplished, they were never at peace. They constantly checked their devices to see what time it was — the very thing Dor had tried to determine once with a stick, a stone, and a shadow.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.