Quotes from Mitch Albom

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

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.

the power of language

Jack," she said, "I just spoke to our son." "Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

A deckhand, a haircutter, and a cook. Really useful out here.

faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe

And one day spent with someone you love can change everything. I

Only God can write the end of your story." "God has left me alone," Dor said. The old man shook his head. "You were never alone.

I wondered, now that his days were dwindling, how important ritual still was. "Vital," he said. But why? Deep inside, you know your convictions. "Mitch," he said, "faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Who was this stranger, LeFleur

as if sadness were as treatable as common cold

grim reminder of how little the natural world cares for our plans.

We forget that 'our' time is linked to others' times. We come from one. We return to one. That's how a connected universe makes sense.

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? Didn't you have such moments with Annabelle?

Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house, up to her bedroom, and down into a deep dark hole.

You've been waiting here all this time? Eddie whispered. Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Why would God sleep?

Offering others what you have to give. I don't mean money. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

But science only knows what it knows. And because it lacks an understanding of the next world, it cannot explain that the flash before your eyes is actually a peek behind the curtain of heaven, where your life and the lives of all you've touched are on the same plane, so that seeing one memory is the same as seeing them all.

Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.

The Captain grinned. The way I see it, that's what we're getting here, soldier. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.