Mitch Albom Quotes

What about a man who sits down to wonder
Why life has cheated him?
Thinks about his situation
Hangs his head and cries
Will we pretend, his problems don't exist?
He's reaching out for help-will we selfishly resist?
What about your brother? He's crying
What about your brother? He's dying
What about your brother?

A child is both an anchor and a set of wings. My old way of doing things was gone.

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

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

Still, I never considered what I would do if I called for the Lord and He actually appeared before me.

Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.

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

By the time you share what a loved one longs to hear, they often no longer need it.

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.

that each affects the other and tho other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you’re using it to wrap a box. But when you’re clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it’s something else entirely.

Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will grant you rest. (Matthew 11:28)

I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.

Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.