Quotes from Mitch Albom

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story...because hers is where yours begins.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesnt.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.