Quotes from Mitch Albom

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

One day can bend your life.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

Life goes quickly, doesn't it?

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

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

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

What will you do with the time you have left?

When hope is gone, time is punishment.