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.
MITCH ALBOMThe pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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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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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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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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Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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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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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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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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You have to start over. That’s what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really “starting over.” More like “continuing without.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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