Quotes from Mitch Albom

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. -Morrie

Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know.

I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.

Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

Here's the thing, he said. People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between

A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.

Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.

He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like? We will hold hands, Morrie said. And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does

tapes, like photographs and videos, are [nothing more than] a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.

When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel. Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. 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.

The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley? Yeah, I mumbled. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go