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.
MITCH ALBOMHolding on to things only breaks your heart.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle the nights i can’t remember the mornings I slept thru all the time spent running from myself.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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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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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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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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