"Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.












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

More Mitch Albom quotes
"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
"However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.
".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as i...
"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.
"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
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"Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone thes...
"The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
"After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No ...
"And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid t...
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"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...
"One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.