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.
MITCH ALBOMBecause 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.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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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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Love wins, love always wins.
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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 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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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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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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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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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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The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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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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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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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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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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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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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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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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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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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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