Quotes from Mitch Albom

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

Broken open is still open.

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." He

We who are born, are born to die.

It was a cutthroat business, dog eat dog, the strong preying on the weak. In the lifestyle I was in, people were killed. It happened every day.

And while they deepen with age, voices are, to one destined to listen for eternity, as distinct as a fingerprint.

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to die

la pérdida le había enseñado algo muy importante: aferrarse a lo material 'solo sirve para ser un desgraciado'.

Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.

thirst for independence overruled her need for guidance

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched... Because, a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything to say, 'The whole world is mine.' 'But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson...' 'We can take nothing with us.

But this orange raft and its hidden notebook? They were a jolt to that misery. He wasn't sure why. Maybe it was the idea that something—even a few pages of something—had endured a tragedy and crossed an ocean to find him. It had survived. And witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.

What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.

There was, in the construction of the universe, us down here, God up there, and you in between. When God seemed too intimidating to face, we could first come to you. It was like befriending the secretary outside the boss's office.

War is the same every when and where.

You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to. Sometimes because they want to. Always, they fell they are supposed to.

Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

Ninguna vida es inútil. Lo único que es inútil es el tiempo que pasamos pensando que estamos solos

On earth, we get the what of things. The why takes a little longer.

One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord's creation, Adam.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

And on this early page of man's story, one different child can change the world.