Quotes from Mitch Albom

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves." Ourselves? "Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am.

we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality—and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

And slowly a discussion begins as Morrie has wanted all along—about the effect of silence on human relations. My are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

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.

And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God's happy.

Lágrima"—"Teardrop"—the

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

He loved to smile. He avoided anger. He was never haunted by Why am I here? He knew why he was here, he said: to give to others, to celebrate God, and to enjoy and honour the world he was put in. His morning prayers began with Thank you, Lord, for returning my soul to me. When you start that way, the rest of the day is a bonus.

Anger is what we feel when we're helpless.

there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

En esta vida no existe el demasiado tarde.

And I suppose tapes, like photographs and videos, are a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.

Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories in print each morning, I knew that, in at least one way, I was alive. I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me.

HI I'VE JOINED THE NINETIES!" it began. He wrote a few little stories, what he'd been doing that week, a couple of jokes.

With his power over time, Dor could have taken anything he desired from this new world. But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

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 .

El universo es demasiado armonioso, magnífico y abrumador para creer que sólo es una casualidad.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be grateful. That's it? For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. That's it.

Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

That kind of love—the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together—that's the kind that lasts.

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.