Quotes from Mitch Albom

Holding on to things will only break your heart.

Everyone in this parish is going to die!' "The minister looked around. He noticed a man in the front pew, smiling broadly. "'Why are you so amused?' he asked. "I'm not from this parish,' the man said. 'I'm just visiting my sister for the weekend.

He draped himself in her sad memory, because it was the closest thing to having her around.

Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

He tolerated it until he could tolerate it no more.

all she said was, "I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.

Did you know... that a dog will go to a crying human before a smiling one? Dogs get sad when people around them get sad. They're created that way. It's called empathy. Humans have it, too. But it gets blocked by other things-- ego, self-pity, thinking your own pain must be tended to first.

And fancy means phony.

Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days.

It is never too late or

The Reb once did a sermon on how 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 against you: fire can warm or burn, water can sustain life or flood it away.

When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, 'Why did God take them? A better question would be 'Why did God give them to us?' What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared?

You can't fit the Lord in a box. But you can gather stories, tradition, wisdom, and in time, you needn't lower the shelf; God is already nearer to thee.

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

When someone passes, people always ask, 'Why did God take them?' A better question would be 'Why did God give them to us?' What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared?

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

we embrace our scars more than our healing...We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

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

But there was also something sad and confessional in his face, something weary in his voice, as if he'd had enough of the world, or at least certain parts of it.

All right. In that final minute, I would say, 'Look, Lord, I've done X amount of good stuff on earth. I have tried to follow your teachings and to pass them on. I have loved my family. I've been part of a community. And I have been, I think, fairly good to people. "'So, Heavenly Father, for all this, what is my reward?"' And what do you think God will say? He smiled. "He'll say, 'Reward?

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for sense of comradeship. When you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for. You don't get satisfaction from those things.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more—to be richer, more beautiful, more well known—you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come.

Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death? Eddie shrugged. Better, she said, to be loyal to one another.

There are five people you meet in Heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what Heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.