"You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tendern...












Kids chase the love that eludes them.

More Mitch Albom quotes
"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is sti...
"There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what t...
"Love wins, love always wins.
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling...
"You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
"There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover...
"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and lov...
"Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the e...
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so muc...
"I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come bec...
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you th...
"Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that ...
"Without love we all like birds with broken wings.
"Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.