Quotes from Mitch Albom

Holding on things will only break your heart

We can't play God." "Why not? God isn't doing anything about it.

Idea people need to be around other idea people. They spur each other to change the world.

Faith, it is said, it's better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.

You can find something truly important in a minute.

I asked how she would provide for the baby she was carrying, she cried out, Ou met pran li tou, you can have it as well. She was not being heartless. I believe that she loved her children - so much so that she wanted a safer life for them, even if it meant she could no longer see them everyday. It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.

Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

Es una pena perder el tiempo. Siempre creemos tener mucho.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back?

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrate, as if singing back to him. He sang an A; the A string shook. The idea of connecting voices through a wire was born.

That death doesn't just take someone, it mosses someone else, and in that small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Lovely, isn't it?" What? "Life," he said.

As we look back on things, what haunts us the most is not the struggle. Not the disease. The fact that the years pass and we say, Chika would have been eight or Chika would have been nine, or, one day, Chika would be in college now, drinking coffee. It's not the time she spent battling we lament. It's the growing up she missed. The time she didn't get. The future she never saw. That still seems so unfair.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins."   Many

Getting old, we can deal with. Being old is the problem.

You have peace when you make it with yourself.

Man rarely knows his own power

blurt out was "Why?

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes. Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. "That's

He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had a plan, and if I stuck to the plan Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own.

You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most.