Mitch Albom Quotes

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown ...

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe ...

Every family is a ghost story.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascen...

He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissor...

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

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

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're ...

the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade...

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...

My friedns, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love ...

If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

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

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that an...

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how s...

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being give...

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, somethin...

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the...

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring t...

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I m...

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb."Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for on...

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

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about ...

I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something tha...

I love you every day,Mom

I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. So...

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for...

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through ea...

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

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i ...

You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's lo...

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely...

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic a...

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bit...

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. M...

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would...

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, ...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically...

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortga...

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning....

Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful s...

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the st...

He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy b...

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' M...

Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like ...

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning ...

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control thing...

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...

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 no...

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pu...

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant...

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection i...

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed q...

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear fo...

Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hand...

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was goi...

Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. ...

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don...

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are