Mitch Albom Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

• 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

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.92, Broadway Books

• You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Offering, Giving

• Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

  Mitch Albom

  Love You, Thinking, Giving

  "The Time Keeper". Book by Mitch Albom, 2012.

• 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, Happened

• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Mitch Albom

  Depression, Morning, Self

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

• 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

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.128, Broadway Books

• 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, Bits

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.78, Hachette UK

• 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

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.125, Broadway Books

• 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, Way

• 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

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

• Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving Up, Giving, Unheard

• Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Waiting, Forgiving

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.167, Broadway Books

• You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, People, Giving

• There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Country, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.126, Broadway Books

• But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

  Mitch Albom

  Prayer, Giving, Important

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Oct 24, 2012

• I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Heart, People

• 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?

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Found Someone, Giving

• No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Heaven, Trying

• You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk . . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

  Mitch Albom

  Eye, Feet, Space

• Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

  Mitch Albom

  Giving Up, Differences, Giving

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