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.
MITCH ALBOMYou can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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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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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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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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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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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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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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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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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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Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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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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It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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