Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “There is no formula to relationships.”

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

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203. “It’s like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. 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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204. “The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.”

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

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206. “Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.”

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

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208. “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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209. “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.”

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210. “It’s amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.”

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211. “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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212. “We all know how to be a child.”

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213. “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.”

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214. “There is life after this life.”

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

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216. “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.”

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

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218. “Learn to detach.”

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

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220. “This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.”

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221. “I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”

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222. “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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223. “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.”

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224. “The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. Do you understand?” I nodded. “How can I be envious of where you are – when I’ve been there myself?”

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225. “We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.”

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226. “Love each other or perish,” Morrie said. “It’s good, no? And it’s so true. Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”

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227. “In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death bring forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.”

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228. “I know I cannot do this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too late” in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.”

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

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230. “Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.”

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231. “Mom?” I whispered. I hadn’t said it in so long. When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

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232. “If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.”

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233. “This was the story he told himself, and the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.”

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234. “There are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

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235. “People have’t found meaning in their lives so they’re running all the time looking for it.”

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236. “And fancy means phony.”

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237. “Quando sei un reietto, ti affezioni anche alle pietre che ti scagliano.”

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238. “Only God can write the end of your story.” “God has left me alone,” Dor said. The old man shook his head. “You were never alone.”

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239. “Death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

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240. “When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”

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241. “War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

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242. “Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.” -Morrie-.”

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243. “The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.”

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244. “Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me?”

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245. “He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty. But then, he didn’t worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.”

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246. “When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.”

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247. “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

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248. “You can be a mama’s boy, be a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

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249. “What’s wrong with being number 2?”

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250. “When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness.”

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