Mitch Albom Quotes

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

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

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

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

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

One day can bend your life.

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

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

I am in love with Hope.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

You have peace, when you make it with yourself.

I love you every day, Mom

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

All who are born are always dying.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.