Mitch Albom famous quotes

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
-- Mitch Albom

#Death #Truth Is

Accept who you are; and revel in it.
-- Mitch Albom

#Confidence #Wisdom #Accepting

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
-- Mitch Albom

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love #Heart #Gone

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.
-- Mitch Albom

#Losing A Loved One #Games #Starting Over

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
-- Mitch Albom

#Change #Time #One Day

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
-- Mitch Albom

#Materialistic #Granted #Materialistic Things

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.
-- Mitch Albom

#Inspirational #Hurt #Hate

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
-- Mitch Albom

#Life #Commitment #Tuesdays With Morrie

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
-- Mitch Albom

#Hard Times #Profound

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.
-- Mitch Albom

#Running #Morning #Night

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
-- Mitch Albom

#Life #Real #Desire

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
-- Mitch Albom

#Letting Go #Moving #Emotional

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
-- Mitch Albom

#Relationships Ending #Lifetime #Ends

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
-- Mitch Albom

#Sad #Losing A Loved One #Loss

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love #Life #Trust

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
-- Mitch Albom

#Important #Ordinary #Minutes

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
-- Mitch Albom

#Fall #Airplane #Thinking

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mother #Wall #Simple

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
-- Mitch Albom

#Forget #Sometimes #Lost

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
-- Mitch Albom

#Family #Children #Believe

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
-- Mitch Albom

#Fearless #Good Advice

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.
-- Mitch Albom

#Waiting #Waiting For You #Hello

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
-- Mitch Albom

#Life #Too Late

I like myself better when I'm with you.
-- Mitch Albom

#Life #Morrie

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
-- Mitch Albom

#Heaven #Unlikely #Found

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
-- Mitch Albom

#Life #Giving

Scenery without solace is meaningless.
-- Mitch Albom

#Scenery #Solace #Meaningless

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
-- Mitch Albom

#Ocean #Wave

I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
-- Mitch Albom

#People #Trying #World

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
-- Mitch Albom

#Inspirational #Men #Thinking

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
-- Mitch Albom

#Beautiful #Issues #Age

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
-- Mitch Albom

#Loss #Sacrifice #Appreciate

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
-- Mitch Albom

#Inspiring Love #Spiritual Love #Worst

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love You #People #Community

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
-- Mitch Albom

#Writing #Grades #Memoir

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
-- Mitch Albom

#Memories #Men #Shells

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
-- Mitch Albom

#Party #Life Is Like #Want

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
-- Mitch Albom

#Heaven #Spirit #Hell

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
-- Mitch Albom

#Broken #Silence #Silence Is

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
-- Mitch Albom

#Believe #Heart #Mind

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
-- Mitch Albom

#Measuring

Love wins, love always wins.
-- Mitch Albom

#Sweet Love #Winning

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
-- Mitch Albom

#Past #Forgiving #Too Late

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

#Dream #Way #Doe

Every life has one true love snapshot.
-- Mitch Albom

#Snapshots #One True Love

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
-- Mitch Albom

#Wrestling #Winning #Opposites

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
-- Mitch Albom

#Rotten #About Yourself

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.
-- Mitch Albom

#Happiness #Treasure #Bars

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.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mean #People #Culture

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
-- Mitch Albom

#Yesterday #Heaven #Make Sense

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.
-- Mitch Albom

#Letting Go #Mother #Children

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.
-- Mitch Albom

#Heart #People #Long

People are only mean when they are threatened.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mean #People

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.
-- Mitch Albom

#Wise #Love Is #Men

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
-- Mitch Albom

#Giving #Needs #Cry

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
-- Mitch Albom

#Family #Knowing #Giving

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
-- Mitch Albom

#Giving #Littles

I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mom #Powerful #Brain

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

#Confused #Arms

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love #Death #Gone

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love You #Believe #Mean

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."
-- Mitch Albom

#Giving #Feelings #Dying

By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
-- Mitch Albom

#Morning #Memories #Eye

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
-- Mitch Albom

#Believe #Said

You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?
-- Mitch Albom

#Grateful #Men #Use

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
-- Mitch Albom

#Death #Life Changing #Forgiving

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
-- Mitch Albom

#Teacher #Tuesdays With Morrie #Jewels

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
-- Mitch Albom

#Xanax #Sadness #Our World

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
-- Mitch Albom

#Inspirational #Life #Substitutes

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-- Mitch Albom

#Loneliness #Embrace

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
-- Mitch Albom

#Heart #Holding On #Break

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
-- Mitch Albom

#Beautiful #Missing #Want

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
-- Mitch Albom

#Thinking #Comforting #Said

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.
-- Mitch Albom

#Offering

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
-- Mitch Albom

#Inspiring #Memories #Losing

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
-- Mitch Albom

#Memories #Home #Thinking

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
-- Mitch Albom

#Letting Go #Long

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
-- Mitch Albom

#Happiness #Encouragement #Attitude

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love #Children #Fall

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
-- Mitch Albom

#Time #Thinking #Waste

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
-- Mitch Albom

#Giving Up #Giving #Unheard

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
-- Mitch Albom

#Love You #Thinking #Giving

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mother #Stories #Behinds

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
-- Mitch Albom

#Winning #Love Is #People

Going back to something is harder than you think.
-- Mitch Albom

#Thinking #Harder

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
-- Mitch Albom

#Offering #Giving #Satisfaction

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
-- Mitch Albom

#Giving #Comforting #Care

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...
-- Mitch Albom

#Mirrors #People #Giving

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
-- Mitch Albom

#Book #Comfort #Genuine

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
-- Mitch Albom

#Wise #Children #Men

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
-- Mitch Albom

#World #Emotion #Apathetic

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
-- Mitch Albom

#Forever #Heaven #Soul

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
-- Mitch Albom

#Positive #Mother #Latin

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
-- Mitch Albom

#Peace #Said #Old Woman

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
-- Mitch Albom

#Mother #Love You #Eye

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
-- Mitch Albom

#Family #Stranger

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
-- Mitch Albom

#Strong #Teaching #People

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
-- Mitch Albom

#Family #Our Family

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
-- Mitch Albom

#Men #Heaven #Secret