Quotes from Mitch Albom

Did God answer you? He smiled. "Still waiting," he said.

we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.

Keadilan tidak mengatur persoalan hidup dan mati.Kalau keadilan yg mengatur,tidak akan ada orang baik mati muda.

And facing death changes all that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well.

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.

We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.

When my mother entered, wearing her nurse's outfit, her arms full of magazines, we must have said, "Hi Mom" too quickly, because she immediately became suspicious. You can see that in your mother's face right away, that "What did you kids do?" look.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.' 'A fear of time running out.

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 22, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something 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.

Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. You notice he added, grinning, there's nothing in there about a salary.

Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between people.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you, she said. And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time -- we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. You notice, there's nothing in there about a salary.

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.

Trees spend all day looking up at God.

losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.

Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.