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.
MITCH ALBOMDon’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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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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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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You 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.
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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
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It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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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.
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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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Love wins, love always wins.
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Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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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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