Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 13

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• 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?

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  Brother, Men, Thinking

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• You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

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  Believe, Humble, May

  "Have a Little Faith". Book by Mitch Albom, www.today.com. 2009.

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• A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

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  Mother, Children, Long

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from May 10, 2017

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• Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

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  Important, Details, Stories

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• Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

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  Mother, Past, Years

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

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  Punishment, Gone, Fixing

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• I love you every day, Mom

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  Mom, Love You

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• We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

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  Children, Remember, Enjoy

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.116, Broadway Books

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• Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

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  Beautiful, Handsome, Kind

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?” Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye and it’s like no time passed at all?” His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.” “With you,” she added.

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  Goodbye, Mean, Eye

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• It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone.

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  Real, Commitment, Choices

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Giving, Important

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Oct 24, 2012

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• At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

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  Crush, Loneliness, Breathing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

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  Men, World, Wonder

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• To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

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  Way, Be Prepared, Involved

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.81, Broadway Books

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• When you're in bed, you're dead

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  Bed

  Jeffrey Hatcher, Mitch Albom (2008). “Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139

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  Mother, Night, Silence

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

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  Father, Eye, Moon

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• Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

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  Men, Doe, Want

  "Mitch Albom’s ‘The Time Keeper’ Offers Wisdom for Days of Awe" by Rabbi Jason Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

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  Confused, War, Men

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• Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

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  Somewhere Else, Routine, Gone

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be greatful." That's it? "For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. "That's it.

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  Believe, Love You, Eye

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• Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

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  Running, Brother, Men

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

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  Moments

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• No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

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  People, Teach, One Thing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.34, Hachette UK

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