The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
MITCH ALBOMDesire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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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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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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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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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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