Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”

— Mitch Albom

402. “I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”

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403. “I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

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

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405. “The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”

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406. “You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.”

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407. “No life is a waste .”

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408. “I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.”

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409. “Things change when you’re not in danger anymore.”

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410. “I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck.”

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411. “We all know how to be a child.”

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412. “Just because you see things straight doesn’t mean you see them in time.”

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413. “What in life can love not penetrate?”

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414. “Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn’t bite you and it doesn’t weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.”

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415. “But the world does not cater to our timing.”

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416. “But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

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417. “Don’t be sorry. You’re alive.”

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418. “Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.”

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419. “Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”

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420. “Secrets tear you apart.”

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421. “Do you understand? Why we’re here? This is not your heaven. It’s mine.”

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422. “Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.”

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423. “Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.”

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424. “There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.”

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425. “But man invents nothing God did not create first.”

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426. “Time,” the Captain said, “is not what you think.” He sat down next to Eddie. “Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

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427. “Time passed. Like flakes shaken in a snow globe, the lives of those involved in the tragedy settled slowly to the ground, not in the same spots but in new pockets of peace.”

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428. “There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation.”

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429. “There is life after this life.”

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430. “Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment – to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began – Morrie stopped breathing.”

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431. “We humans make so much of ‘our’ time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.”

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432. “Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don’t know everything. And since we don’t know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”

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433. “Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neatly and sweetly, like a valentine tucked in an envelope. Humans grow dizzy from new affection, and young Frankie was already dizzy when he and the mysterious girl descended from that tree.”

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434. “I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.”

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435. “We adults can be a wretched lot Chika, yet in every child’s face we see the Lord has not given up on us.”

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436. “And, as is usually the fate with bands, most of them will break up – through distance, differences, divorce, or death.”

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437. “It’s a quiet theft, how time lures people away.”

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438. “I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.”

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439. “And while she didn’t know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.”

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440. “There’s no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.”

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441. “I hate to be like everyone else, but I’m rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.”

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442. “You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance – to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse?”

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443. “They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.”

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444. “All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.”

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445. “Going back to something is harder than you think.”

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446. “Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

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447. “Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.”

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448. “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. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”

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449. “But the poor kids today, either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they’re marrying?”

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450. “Life goes quickly, doesn’t it?”

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