Quotes from Mitch Albom

Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.

Going back to something is harder than you think. I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.

I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.

What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow of time completely …

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion

I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.' 'Your fate,' the Lord said. 'Something like that.' 'Perhaps I can help.' I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.' 'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.

He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.

It's such a big world, She'd say wistfully. Something is always happening somewhere.

God -starts- things,' he [the Lord] said. 'Man stops them.

His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world. And when that happens, things change

There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less. Why? she whispered. Why are you here? The winds blew, he said.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? -Morrie

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.

if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone." He

The bride waits here, she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.

And, as is usually the fate with bands, most of them will break up—through distance, differences, divorce, or death.