Quotes from Mitch Albom

They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty.

That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.

On earth, Marguerite said, when you fell asleep, you sometimes dreamed your heaven and those dreams helped to form it.

But no matter how a family comes together, and no matter how it comes apart, this is true and will always be true: you cannot lose a child. And we did not lose a child. We were given one. And she was glorious.

He told her the new names. No more Dippers or Tumble Bugs. Everything was the Blizzard, the Mind Bender, Top Gun, the Vortex. Sounds strange, doesn't it? Eddie said. It sounds, she said, wistfully, like someone else's summer. Eddie realized that was precisely what he had been feeling for years.

What profits a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?

If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.

When you give, you get," he said.

She was like an old wound beneath a bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses.

He looked at his own arms and realized, in his earthly body, he was now older than his father. He had outlived him in every way.

If you hold back on the emotions--you can never get being detached, you're too busy being afraid. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. You let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely.

Alli took her husband's arm. "Your father was a faster runner and a better climber.

It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny.

Eddie doesn't answer. The old darkness has taken a seat beside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commute on a crowded bus.

You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship]

we wrestle with conflicting urges. Christianity believes Satan tempts us with evil. Hindus see evil as a challenge to life's balance. Judaism refers to a man's righteous inclination versus his evil inclination as two warring spirits; the evil spirit can, at first, be as flimsy as a cobweb, but if allowed to grow, it becomes thick as a cart rope.

SACRIFICE, THE CAPTAIN said. You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. A man goes to war

My mother inhaled.

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i

the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work for you or against you: fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away.

You made me love you I didn't want to do it I didn't want to do it.… You made me love you and all the time you knew it

Happy birthday to you... Marguerite emerges, singing in her sweet, soft voice. She looks beautiful, wearing the print dress Eddie likes, her hair and lips done up. Eddie feels the need to inhale, as if undeserving of such a moment. He fights the darkness within him, Leave me alone, he tells it. Let me feel this the way I should feel it.