Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 2

Going back to something is harder than you think.

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

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

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

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

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

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

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

Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

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

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

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

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz