Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live. - Mitch Albom

You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

"There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?"
Yes?
"Your belief in the importance of your marriage."

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, ‘Why did God take them?’ A better question would be ‘Why did God give them to us?’ What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared? Didn’t you have such moments with Annabelle?” “Every day,” I rasped. “Those moments are a gift. But their end is not a punishment. I am never cruel, Benjamin. I know you before you are born. I know you after you die. My plans for you are not defined by this world. “Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul. “I know the tears you shed, Benjamin. When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep.” She smiled. “But I promise you, those who leave do not.