Quotes from Mitch Albom

She says everyone you lose here, you find again there. Our family is all together. Her. My parents.

Du Coeur on guérit la blessure Par un serment qui le rassure It means, We heal the wounded heart, with an oath that reassures it.

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete.

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

I'm looking for the oldest pocket watch you have.

PEOPLE SAY THEY "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

He cut his hair. Like Samson pulling the pillars down around him, Frankie crumbled all the things he'd become attached to in an effort to be free of them.

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 it.

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 his lesson. What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. We can take nothing with us.

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

and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

Man suffers for his art.

Blundering back to God. Simple as that.

He wondered why God was always mentioned in the most unusual moments of his life.

In time I came to view that event the way you view a faded vacation photo. It's just someplace you went a long time ago.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden. Instead of a wish granted.

Four years? She'd been gone from this world as long as she'd been in it.

I'd had books published in foreign languages. I'd had many addresses over the years. But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

In the end, there is the sea and the land and the news that happens between them. To spread that news, we tell each other stories. Sometimes the stories are about survival. And sometimes those stories, like the presence of the Lord, are hard to believe. Unless believing is what makes them true.

I collected the papers, wrapped them back in the rubber band, and felt a small grief, like a person who discovers, upon returning from a trip, that something has been left behind and there is no way now to retrieve it.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.