Quotes by Mitch Albom

“Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.”

“We are, as we die, who we most were in life...”

“After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.”

“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”

“In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert...”

“A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensat...”

“But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.”

“Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.But now and then, a miracle is ...”

“He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan"...”

“I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, unden...”

“I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give up," she whispered back.”

“There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”