Quotes from Mitch Albom

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.

When you're in bed, you're dead.

The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long

People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. 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.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time—then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

I've learned this much about marriage," he said now. "You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't.

proving heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

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 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.

A veces no eres capaz de creete lo que ves, tienes que creer en lo que sientes.

Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.

I don't want to fight, she whispered. Just come home.

Todo mundo sabe que se va a morir, pero nadie se lo cree.

Mitch, I know it hurts when you can't be with someone you love. But you need to be at peace with his desires.

Cundo aprendes a morir, aprendes a vivir.

The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.

You see, he says to the girl, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you feel. 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 are falling.

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.

I'm not as good as I was yesterday, buuuut… I'm better than I'm gonna be tom-orrrrr-ow…

Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.

if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for the 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.

Instead, I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died...