Quotes About Mitch Albom

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. 'Love is the only rational act.

He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if you didn't like it—and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.

when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

People often ask what I miss about Morrie. I miss that belief in humanity. I miss the eyes that could view life so encouragingly. And I miss his laugh. I really do.

But as with any miracle left long enough in man's hands, more earthly explanations arise.

My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

War was his call to manhood. Maybe someone would miss him, too.

Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There was no known cure.

He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. His voice dropped to a whisper.Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

land of high mountains" is the aboriginal meaning of the word Haiti).

What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it." Morrie had a better idea. He made some calls. He chose a date. And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a "living funeral.

HI I'VE JOINED THE NINETIES!" it began. He wrote a few little stories, what he'd been doing that week, a couple of jokes.

And many of these patients were well-off, from rich families, so their wealth did not buy them happiness or contentment. It was a lesson he never forgot.

respected man once said, that the

received its first phone call from heaven, Tess Rafferty

There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation. This was one of those moments.

And that, Chika, was the beginning of providence moving our lives together, or the continuance of it, I should say, since the Lord doesn't get ideas partway through a life.

It is never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary, and the paleness of surrender becomes the color of Eddie's days.