Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
MITCH ALBOMNothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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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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It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.
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You 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.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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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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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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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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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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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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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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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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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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There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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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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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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