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 ALBOMYou can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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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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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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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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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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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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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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Love wins, love always wins.
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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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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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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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Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
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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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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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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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