Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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. – 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.”

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

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303. “Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

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304. “If you could pack for heaven, this was how you’d do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

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305. “Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

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306. “In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.”

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307. “How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”

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

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309. “The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.”

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

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311. “All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”

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312. “Here’s the thing,” he said. “People see me as a bridge. I’m not as alive as I used to be, but I’m not yet dead. I’m sort of... in-between.”

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313. “That kind of love – the kind you realize you already have by the life you’ve created together – that’s the kind that lasts.”

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314. “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

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315. “This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.”

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316. “But all endings are also beginnings.”

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317. “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more.”

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318. “Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.”

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319. “Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie’s.”

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320. “This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

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321. “I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother’s death-notice telegram or by his father’s corpse in the city morgue.”

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322. “Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

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323. “Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.”

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324. “It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

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325. “Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.”

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326. “The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”

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327. “I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.”

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328. “Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

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329. “Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”

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330. “Mitch, if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

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331. “To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.”

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332. “Don’t let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that’s not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we’d treat each other better.”

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333. “The manager once called me the ‘best freak’ in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”

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334. “Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”

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335. “When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.”

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336. “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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337. “You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. That’s the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”

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338. “In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I’ve always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That’s my style.”

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339. “Morrie closed his eyes. “I know, Mitch. You mustn’t be afraid of my dying. I’ve had a good life, and we all know it’s going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.”

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340. “And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death’s suitcase.”

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341. “But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.”

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342. “What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you’re so wrecked it’s hard to believe you ever were a child?”

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343. “There is no formula to relationships.”

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344. “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. 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 you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

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345. “Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.”

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346. “For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word ‘dying’ was not synonymous with ‘useless’.”

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347. “What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your.”

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348. “All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.” Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. “What?” he said. “That 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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349. “I don’t know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.”

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350. “And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”

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