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 ALBOMNo life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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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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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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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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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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