Quotes from Mitch Albom

I think people expect too much from marriage today," he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience.

Music tells the truths

If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.

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?

I've thought a lot about that night. I believe my mother saved my life. 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.

But real commitment? That requires staying power—in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone.

That was what was missing. Every hurt he'd ever suffered, every ache he'd ever endured—it was all as gone as an expired breath. He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm.

The good will be welcome in heaven.

Memendam amarah adalah racun. Ia menggerogotimu dari dalam.

Servant of God: In this cave, you will not age a moment. Dor: I deserve no such gift. Servant of God: It is not a gift.

Kita mengira kebencian adalah senjata untuk melawan orang yang melukai kita, tapi kebencian adalah pisau melengkung.

Every one knows they 're going to die, but nobody believes it... If we did, we would do things differently.

All caves begin with rain. The rain mixes with gas. The new acidic water eats through rocks, and tiny fractures grow into passageways. Eventually—after many thousands of years—these passageways might create an opening large enough for a man.

If God wants it, it will happen.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

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

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

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

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.