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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More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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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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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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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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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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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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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.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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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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Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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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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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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Love wins, love always wins.
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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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