Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.”

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353. “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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354. “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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355. “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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356. “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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357. “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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358. “You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain – no matter how smart or accomplished – they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.”

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359. “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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360. “Trees spend all day looking up at God.”

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361. “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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362. “The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.”

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363. “Don’t lose yourself... inside yourself...”

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364. “There is no formula to relationships.”

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365. “I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.”

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366. “Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.” He squeezed my hand gently. I squeezed back harder. And like that carnival contest where you bang a hammer and watch the disk rise up the pole, I could almost see my body heat rise up Morrie’s chest and neck into his cheeks and eyes. He smiled.”

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370. “The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”

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371. “All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

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372. “The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.”

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373. “I earned a mater’s degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.”

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374. “In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it’s all one song – one same, wonderful, human song. I am in love with hope.”

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375. “Talent is a piece of God’s shadow. And under that shadow, human stories intersect.”

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376. “This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died – what I call your ‘spiritual security’ – knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.”

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377. “Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy.”

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378. “Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.”

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379. “I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.”

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380. “We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.”

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381. “My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.”

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382. “Secrets. We think by keeping them, we’re controlling things, but all the while, they’re controlling us.”

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383. “Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.”

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384. “Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.”

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385. “You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.”

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386. “I worked because I could control it.”

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387. “There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”

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388. “You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way.”

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389. “I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness – but it is Morrie’s softness that draws me, and because he doesn’t look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.”

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390. “It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?”

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391. “She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

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392. “There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”

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393. “Remember this, Francisco,” he said. “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

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394. “Never tell a child that something it’s too hard.”

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395. “That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”

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396. “Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.”

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397. “His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look – until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.”

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398. “Before you measure the years, you measure the days.”

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399. “As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.”

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400. “How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?”

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