Quotes from Mitch Albom

But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.

I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.

A child is both an anchor and a set of wings.

Everything in this world is music if you can hear it.

Love does not make you a fool.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.

Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. He jotted down his thoughts on yellow pads, envelopes, folders, scrap paper. He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "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.

But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It's what we do with today that makes an impact.

In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?

We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?

I am not one of the "slower" talents, like Reason or Mathematics. I am Music. If I bless you singing, you can do so from your first attempt.

Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neatly and sweetly, like a valentine tucked in an envelope. Humans grow dizzy from new affection, and young Frankie was already dizzy when he and the mysterious girl descended from that tree.

because children, especially sick children, have a toughness unique to their young souls, one that can comfort even the fretting adults around them.

You might say that is "too young" to die. But what is too young for a life?

People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.

Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.

In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song—one same, wonderful, human song. I am in love with hope.

Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else"—

It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.

But I had never seen her that way. I had never known her as Pauline, the name he parents had given her, or as Posey, the name her friends had given her; only as Mom, the name I had given her. I could only see her carrying dinner to the table with kitchen mitts, or carpooling us to the bowling alley.