Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We donโt see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if youโre surrounded by people who say โI want mine now,โ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
Mitch AlbomThe truth is, part of me is every age. Iโm a three-year-old, Iโm a five-year-old, Iโm a thirty-seven-year-old, Iโm a fifty-year-old. Iโve been through all of them, and I know what itโs like. I delight in being a child when itโs appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when itโs appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
Mitch AlbomYou can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
Mitch AlbomConsider the word โtime.โ We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with โtimeโ as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.
Mitch Albom