Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 3

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

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. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

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

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

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 love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

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

Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu

What is false about hope?