As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
Mitch AlbomYou have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You canโt trade them in. You canโt lie to them. You canโt run two at once, substituting back and forth. โSticking with your family is what makes it a family.
Mitch AlbomMortality 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.
Mitch AlbomSuddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
Mitch AlbomDidn'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.
Mitch Albom