Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “There are no random acts.”

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103. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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106. “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

107. “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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108. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

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109. “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

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

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

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

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113. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – Dr. John Trainer.”

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

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

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

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117. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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119. “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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120. “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 earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”

— Mitch Albom

121. “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?”

— Mitch Albom

122. “There are five people you meet in heaven,” the Blue Man suddenly said. “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 earth.”

— Mitch Albom

123. “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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124. “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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125. “You’re not listening with your eyes.”

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

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128. “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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129. “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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130. “Love or Perish.”

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

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132. “If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I’m amazed by how many people don’t bother to do that.”

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

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134. “He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

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135. “Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”

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136. “She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”

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137. “Catholic ritual of Sancta Missa: “ ‘Come in haste to assist them, you saints of God. Come in haste to meet them, you angels of the Lord. Enfold in your arms these souls, and take your burden heavenward to the most high.”

— Mitch Albom

138. “It’s the thinking that gets you killed.”

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139. “There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.”

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140. “Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

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

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

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144. “People say they “find” love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

— Mitch Albom

145. “It’s never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.”

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146. “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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147. “Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

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148. “When you’re in bed, you’re dead.”

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149. “No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be.”

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150. “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