Quotes from Mitch Albom

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For those were my children,too." What do you think of that? the teacher asks us. Someone else answers. But I know what I think. I think it is the first time I've heard that God might love the enemy as well as us.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.

It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.

Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't

The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.

You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen, on a beach, at night, with your shoes off. I still can't believe he's gone.

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." Eddie shook his head. "We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain't fair." The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. "Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't.

we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?" "You bet," Morrie whispered.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved." "Dying, is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

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

For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take

Worry is something you create.

Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."   —HENRY ADAMS

Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.

First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.

Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at the time.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn't bite you and it doesn't weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.