Mitch Albom Quotes

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.

The teaching goes on

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?

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.

We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

Here's the thing, " he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between

I'm on the last great journey here--and people ant me to tell them what to pack.

the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.

I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up, " I whispered."Don't give up, " she whispered back.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.

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

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.