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.
MITCH ALBOMHeaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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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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Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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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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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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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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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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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
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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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It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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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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There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
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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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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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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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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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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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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
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