Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “The greatest thing, you’ll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return.” He.”

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452. “He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. ” ‘Love is the only rational act.”

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453. “And while she didn’t know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.”

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454. “We humans make so much of ‘our’ time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.”

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455. “Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don’t know everything. And since we don’t know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”

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456. “Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neatly and sweetly, like a valentine tucked in an envelope. Humans grow dizzy from new affection, and young Frankie was already dizzy when he and the mysterious girl descended from that tree.”

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457. “I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.”

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458. “We adults can be a wretched lot Chika, yet in every child’s face we see the Lord has not given up on us.”

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459. “Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It’s a shame.”

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460. “Going back to something is harder than you think.”

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461. “Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.”

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462. “Life goes quickly, doesn’t it?”

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463. “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.”

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464. “I hate to be like everyone else, but I’m rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.”

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465. “You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance – to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse?”

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466. “This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.”

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467. “Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it. Frankie.”

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468. “I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All.”

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469. “What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?”

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470. “For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I’ve never really dealt with religious things.”

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471. “First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.”

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472. “But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It’s what we do with today that makes an impact.”

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473. “He listened as if you were the person in the world.”

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474. “My own father didn’t talk a lot about feelings or emotions.”

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475. “For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and – ta da! – a window.”

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476. “All who are born are always dying.”

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477. “If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he’s not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he’s not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they’re not yours – well, maybe the problem is you.”

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478. “Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.”

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479. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.”

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480. “Wanting what you can’t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren’t satisfied – before working some more.”

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481. “He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.”

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482. “And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence – to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time.”

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483. “Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”

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484. “Got an hour or two? That’s all it takes for one of my books.”

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485. “You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance – to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea.”

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486. “So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they’re gone, we reach for them.”

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487. “If we love something and somebody so much, how much – if at all – are they ever really gone from our hearts?”

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488. “A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.”

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489. “Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what’s interesting to you isn’t necessarily interesting to a reader.”

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490. “Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.”

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491. “At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.”

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492. “Did God answer you? He smiled. “Still waiting,” he said.”

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493. “There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It’s why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.”

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494. “Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?”

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495. “Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past.”

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496. “Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don’t say anything because we’re frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.”

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497. “So many times I feel I’m using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!”

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498. “Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?”

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499. “What is the reason?′ ‘Finish your journey and you will know.”

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500. “The bride waits here,” she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. “This is the moment you think about what you’re doing. Who you’re choosing. Who you will love. If it’s right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.”

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