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 AlbomItโs not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didnโt do. All the things we should have done. You canโt get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.
Mitch AlbomYou're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.
Mitch AlbomThe fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isnโt the family. If you donโt have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you donโt have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, โLove each other or perishโ.
Mitch Albom