Mitch Albom Quotes

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

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

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

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

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

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.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

I like myself better when I'm with you.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

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

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

Every life has one true love snapshot.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

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

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

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.