Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

153. “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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154. “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

155. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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

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160. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

162. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

163. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

164. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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168. “Something is always happening somewhere.”

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169. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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171. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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174. “One withers, another grows.”

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175. “Love each other or die.”

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176. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

177. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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181. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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184. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

185. “Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

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186. “If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.”

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187. “I don’t use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can’t read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.”

— Mitch Albom

188. “But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

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189. “If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.”

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190. “I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I’ve hit a snag in my writing.”

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191. “You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make room for him.”

— Mitch Albom

192. “Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.”

— Mitch Albom

193. “Hati yang utuh adalah hati yang pernah patah.”

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194. “You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days.”

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195. “Tension of opposites.”

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196. “Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.”

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197. “For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.”

— Mitch Albom

198. “We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.”

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199. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

200. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ” – MAHATMA GANDHI.”

— Mitch Albom