Quotes from Mitch Albom

When you're in bed, you're dead

Let [love] come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Somethings hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society determine those for you.

There is life after this life.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days." "What is the reason?" "Finish your journey and you will know.

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

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.

Kadang-kadang, kalau tidak mendapatkan cinta yang kau inginkan, dengan memberi kau pikir kau akan mendapatkannya.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...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.

giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. IF you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more then the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand your going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Ted, this disease is knocking at my spirit. But it will not get my spirit. It'll get my body. It will not get my spirit.

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

The curtain has just come down on childhood

Now it was gone. And as the strike continued—the first day, the second day, the third day—there were worried phone calls and rumors that this could go on for months. Everything I had known was upside down. There were sporting events each night that I would have gone to cover. Instead, I stayed home, watched them on TV. I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me.

For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …

Do the kind of things that come from the heart When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me—even in my current condition.

Don't lose yourself... inside yourself...

Those who sat with him saw his eyes go moist when they spoke about something horrible, or crinkle in delight when they told him a really bad joke. He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. We are great at small talk: 'What do you do?' 'Where do you live?' But really listening to someone -- without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return -- how often do we get this anymore?