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 ALBOMDesire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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Love wins, love always wins.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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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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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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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.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle the nights i can’t remember the mornings I slept thru all the time spent running from myself.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
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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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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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