Mitch Albom Quotes

Having more does not keep you
from wanting more.

The things you spend so much time on — all this work you do — might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

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

I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above, it’s just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love…

The possibilities of another person. Is there any anticipation on this earth quite like that one? Is there anything lonelier than being without it?

It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.

"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 I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?

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

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

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it — and have it repeated to us — over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

I give myself a good cry if i need it. A little each morning, a few tears and that's all.