Quotes from Mitch Albom

Holding her hand was like a key turning a tumbler. My body melted. My breath calmed. As the minutes passed, I seemed to get smaller. The heavens grew enormous. When a spread of glowing stars

How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you?

When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep." She smiled. "But I promise you, those who leave do not.

So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Hidup memang saling berhubungan, seluruh kehidupan adalah satu. Karena kehidupan sebelum kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan kita. Dan kehidupan kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan setelah kita.

no religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God;

El Maestro: Do not attack the strings, Francisco. Francisco Presto: No, Maestro. El Maestro: Coax them. Francisco Presto: Yes, Maestro. El Maestro: Make them hunger for your next note. Same as in life. Francisco Presto: In life, Maestro? El Maestro: When you want someone to listen to you, will you attack them? Francisco Presto: No, Maestro. El Maestro: No, you will not. you will make them hear the beauty of what you are offering, and they will want it for themselves.

Luke the Drifter: Play me the saddest song you got. Frankie Presto: Why do you want to hear a sad song? Luke the Drifter: They're more true than the happy ones

Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul.

why don't people come back to Earth after they die?

Why would they want to?

he didn't want to disrupt the boy's life any more than he already had.

Those moments are a gift.

Francisco Presto: How do you know you are in love, Maestro? El Maestro: If you are asking, you are not.

simplicity and surrender to the universe.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand—even in dreams. Just

Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you.

We are blinded by our regrets. We don't realize who else we punish when we're punishing ourselves.

Holding on to things will only break your heart

It has always been a mystery to me, Annabelle, how beauty and anguish can share the same moment.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith." The

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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins. So this was my mother's story. And mine.

Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do.