Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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.” Which is? “Make peace with living.”

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152. “You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It’s a lifetime in itself.”

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153. “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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154. “Things change when you’re not in danger anymore.”

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155. “Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.”

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156. “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.”

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

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159. “Tension of opposites.”

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

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

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162. “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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163. “Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I’m just waiting for you!”

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

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

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

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167. “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.”

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168. “There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.”

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

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

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171. “The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.”

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172. “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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173. “I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

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174. “This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times – or you will be useless.”

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175. “We all know how to be a child. It’s inside all of us. For me, it’s just remembering how to enjoy it.”

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176. “Life has to end, she said. Love doesn’t.”

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177. “Orang-orang asing adalah keluarga yang belum kau kenal.”

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178. “This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”

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179. “We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time – we often think they began with our arrival. That’s not true.”

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180. “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

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181. “It’s always difficult to watch someone you love die.”

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182. “When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.”

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183. “Detroit is a place where we’ve had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.”

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184. “No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.”

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185. “We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.”

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186. “Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand – even in dreams.”

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187. “No act done for someone else is ever wasted.”

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188. “Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”

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189. “Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still – until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

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190. “One withers, another grows.”

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191. “Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.”

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192. “The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”

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193. “Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.”

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194. “Love each other or die.”

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195. “But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.”

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196. “But all endings are also beginnings.”

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197. “No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.”

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198. “Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.”

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199. “Much of what we called “depression” was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren’t willing to work for.”

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200. “We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.”

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