Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?”

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252. “But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

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253. “But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”

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254. “The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.”

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255. “There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

— Mitch Albom

256. “People are only mean when they are threatened.”

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257. “If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.”

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258. “I’m on the last great journey here – and people want me to tell them what to pack.”

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259. “Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father’s love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

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260. “For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.”

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261. “Because one thing God gave us- and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.”

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262. “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t hold their hand... You can’t tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn’t.”

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263. “People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

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264. “But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”

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265. “Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.”

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266. “Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.”

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267. “This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.”

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268. “Morrie closed his eyes to absorb the notes. As my wife’s loving voice filled the room, a crescent smile appeared 0n his face. And while his body was stiff as a sandbag, you could almost see him dancing inside it.”

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269. “A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”

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270. “The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of – unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn’t get enough.”

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271. “Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

— Mitch Albom

272. “In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.”

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273. “Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”

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274. “You’re never in love with anyone the way you are when you’re eighteen, on a beach, at night, with your shoes off. I still can’t believe he’s gone.”

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275. “I hope you can find the healing power in grieving.”

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276. “What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want – someone to notice she was there.”

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277. “The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

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278. “Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.”

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279. “Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds.”

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280. “As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, an army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a galley inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it.”

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281. “My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.”

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282. “Why didn’t I feel this before?” she whispered. “Because we embrace our scars more than our healing,” Lorraine said. “We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?”

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283. “Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I’m getting. Not everyone is as lucky.” I.”

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284. “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.”

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

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286. “I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories that I’m going to hear. On you, if it’s Tuesday. Because we’re Tuesday people.”

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287. “In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?”

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288. “And a man without memories is just a shell.”

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289. “Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.”

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290. “You don’t know how to live until you learn how to die.”

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291. “The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway – most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.”

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292. “You only have peace when you make it with yourself.”

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293. “Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.”

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294. “We do not realize the sound the world makes – unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”

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295. “I am every age, up to my own.”

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296. “Didn’t people call New Year’s the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.”

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297. “We’re Tuesday people,” he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled.”

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298. “If you hold back on the emotions – if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them – you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”

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299. “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. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.”

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300. “War never stops; it only pauses.”

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