Quotes About Presence

No soul remembered is ever really gone.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Time flies with you

This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. ... I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

If we love something and somebody so much, how much—if at all—are they ever really gone from our hearts?

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don't think about getting it back, you've given it in love. I learned that from you.

There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less. Why? she whispered. Why are you here? The winds blew, he said.

I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.

He listened as if you were the person in the world.

But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Still what I miss most, simple and maybe selfish as it sounds, is the twinkle in Morrie's eyes when I came in the room. But When someone is happy-genuninely happy-to see you, it melts you from the start. It is like going home.

Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame." He shot me a look. "Not work," he added.

sometimes those stories, like the presence of the Lord, are hard to believe. Unless believing is what makes them true.

The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do…

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times." ? Mitch Albom, For One More Day

When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world.

When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world. How much better would people get along if their first encounter each day were like this—instead of a grumble from a waitress or a bus driver or a boss?