Quotes from Mitch Albom

All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

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.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'.

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

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.

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.

You had many more years," he said. "I didn't want them." "But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." "What's that?" "Hope.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 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.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Love is the only rational act.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Embrace aging.

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.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. "Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.