Quotes from Mitch Albom

You have peace, when you make it with yourself.

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

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

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

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

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

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

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

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

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.

I like myself better when I'm with you.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Sentiment is wherever you go.

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