Quotes from Mitch Albom

people in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing)...

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

All blessings do not bless the same.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch? Yes? Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you... And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places everyday that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time - we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen

Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them all.

There are no random acts.

What if I lose you? You can't lose your mother, Charley.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. Yes. Do they ever make more sense? No.

What will you do with the time you have left?

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's

People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under 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.