Quotes from Mitch Albom

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. 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. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed. She paused. And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

No soul remembered is ever really gone.

People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. Fear? he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined? That's big. Yes. But there's something else. What else? He leaned forward. Being forgotten, he whispered.

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know

You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

Tears are okay

I am every age, up to my own.

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.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.