Mitch Albom Quotes

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Mortality 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.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

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.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

What's wrong with being number 2?

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

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

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

The length of your days does not belong to you.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Tension of opposites.

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

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

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

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

There is no formula to relationships.

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

I worked because I could control it.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.