Quotes from Mitch Albom

But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith's authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else.

I already knew the incredible profits in chemotherapy, and how those profits led to an insidious push for that treatment: when patients suggested another approach, physicians could be condescending, dismissing alternatives as risky, unproven, even quackery.

carrying children. It is the most wonderful weight to bear.

There is no experience like having children. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in deepest way, then you should have children.

Kembali menjalani yang pernah kautinggalkan itu lebih sulit daripada yang kaukira.

I know you before you are born. I know you after you die. My plans for you are not defined by this world.

Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But

And over time our marriage collapsed. She grew tired of my misery and I can't say I blame her. When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those who love you.

People see me as a bridge.I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of .....in-between.

Faith is so important. It is a rope for us all to grab, up and down the mountain.

Because it all ties together. When I grew up, I realized how lucky I'd been. I got serious. I studied. I went to college, then medical school. I specialized in replantation.

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

Every family is a ghost story.

Scenery without solace is meaningless

And that, Chika, was the beginning of providence moving our lives together, or the continuance of it, I should say, since the Lord doesn't get ideas partway through a life.

What happened? she asked. During that war? He had never quite told her. It was all understood. Soldiers, in his day, did what they had to do and didn't speak of it once they came home. He thought about the men he'd killed. He thought about the guards. He thought about the blood on his hands. He wondered if he'd ever be forgiven. I lost myself, he said.

It is never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary, and the paleness of surrender becomes the color of Eddie's days.

We often think things are about us when they are not.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

She held out her arms. And for the first time in heaven, he initiated his contact, he came to her, ignoring the leg, ignoring all the ugly associations he had made about dance and music and weddings, realizing now that they were about loneliness.

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.