Quotes from Mitch Albom

When people don't believe in something, they're lost.

And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too —even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

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?

I'm too ugly to be a narcissist.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck

Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

He leaned in close. He saw his father's dirty hands. He spoke the last familiar words in a whisper. Its' fixed.

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.

Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

There would be lots of holding and kissing and talking and laughter and no good-byes left unsaid.

Ted, he said, when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live? I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything. You could sing the phone book. I would call and say how are you feeling, and you'd answer, "The old gray rabbi, ain't what he used to be…

She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-delusion, and the truth enveloped her like a cocoon, and all she said was I was so lonely . And Father Time said, You were never alone.

Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. - Morrie

It's natural to die, he said again. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature. He smiled at the plant. We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.

If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

Survive until tomorrow

I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.