Quotes from Mitch Albom

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

By this point—already a strapping young teenager—Eddie only nodded back. Unbeknownst to him, he had begun the ritual of semaphore with his father, forsaking words or physical affection. It was all to be done internally. You were just supposed to know it, that's all. Denial of affection. The damage done.

nothing normal about that moment, my love. Nothing normal at all.

MWEN SE PITIT BONDYE "I am a child of God.

this moment, what you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next....It is unwritten.

After Lilly's death, Inspector LeFleur viewed things differently. Why turn to God now? Where was God when his MIL fell asleep? Where was God when his daughter got swept into the sea? What kind of God lets a child die that way? There was no comfort in invisible forces, not for LeFleur. There was only what got put in front of you and how you dealt with it. If he was in the lifeboat he would have pinned him down and held Him accountable for all the horrors He allowed in this world.

Knowing heaven . . . is what heals us on earth.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Gradually, I had to face the fact that I could not control everything, no matter how fast my eyes darted from spot to spot. This was hard. I am not good at being vulnerable, Chika, or relying on the Lord to handle it all.

I believe, as the Reb once told me, that, with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.

No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

With each passing sunset, our hope grows depleted, and we no longer feel like passengers of anything. We are souls adrift.

Accept who you are and revel in that. You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

Consider the word time. We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

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

Please love one another, talk to one another, don't let trivialities dissolve friendships…

Sully did this now, finished unfinished sentence, believing that the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do

Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.

You counted the minutes, but did you use them wisely?

Some would say that you meet the Lord.

Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue

all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Mom?" I whispered. I hadn't said it in so long. When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever

A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered—it all demands a fierce revenge, a balancing of the accounts.