K. Mitch Quotes
The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble, we wonder why no one tried sooner.
The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
What is it?”“A prayer.”“For a child?”She nodded.“For me?”Another nod.“On a tree?”“Trees spend all day looking up at God.
If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are
Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.
It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.
Strangers, " the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.
The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting line saying ‘I’m not going to win this race’.
And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".
I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities
I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.
When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.
Humanity rose to the stars, but never found paradise.
It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.
How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?
you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it
The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.
Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.
However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.
Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.
Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.
Time, " the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?