Quotes by Mitch Albom

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

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“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 j...”

“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It wont hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, All right...”

“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.”

“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.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

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

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

“There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on ear...”

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

“That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." ...”

“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age....”

“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.”

“I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.”