We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
MITCH ALBOMYou have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!
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I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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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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We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
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