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.
MITCH ALBOMThere’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway – most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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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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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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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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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Fear is how you lose your life…a little bit at a time…What we give to fear, we take away from…faith.
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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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