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.
MITCH ALBOMDesire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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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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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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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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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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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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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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Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
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