Mitch Albom Quotes

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

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

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

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

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

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 match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Love wins, love always wins.

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 that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

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