Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

— Mitch Albom

102. “Scenery without solace is meaningless.”

— Mitch Albom

103. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

— Mitch Albom

104. “Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

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105. “Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.”

— Mitch Albom

106. “I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

— Mitch Albom

107. “She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

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108. “I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.”

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109. “Hello, Edward. I’ve been waiting for you.”

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110. “Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

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111. “Most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”

— Mitch Albom

112. “I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.”

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113. “When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart.”

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114. “You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”

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115. “You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.”

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116. “Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.”

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117. “You have to work at creating your own culture.”

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118. “Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem.”

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119. “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

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120. “Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people can’t do it.”

— Mitch Albom

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121. “Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.”

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122. “Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.”

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123. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

124. “Without love we all like birds with broken wings.”

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125. “It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

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126. “Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

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127. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all.”

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128. “There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

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129. “What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy.”

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130. “Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”

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131. “Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

— Mitch Albom

132. “Love is not revenge. It can’t be thrown like a rock. And you can’t create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”

— Mitch Albom

133. “All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn’t what you thought.”

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134. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

135. “I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t.”

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136. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”

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137. “At that moment i felt lonelier than i’d ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.”

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138. “A child is both an anchor and a set of wings. My old way of doing things was gone.”

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139. “Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.”

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140. “I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

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141. “You’re not listening with your eyes.”

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142. “Something is always happening somewhere.”

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143. “In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

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144. “I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you’ve touched while you were here on earth.”

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145. “But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

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146. “I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”

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147. “Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.”

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148. “Love or Perish.”

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149. “Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.”

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150. “A teacher’s shadow can hover for life.”

— Mitch Albom