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 ALBOMYou 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.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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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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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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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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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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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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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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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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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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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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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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