You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
MITCH ALBOMAccept 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.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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Love wins, love always wins.
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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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It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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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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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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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.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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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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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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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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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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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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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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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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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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Fear is how you lose your life…a little bit at a time…What we give to fear, we take away from…faith.
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