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 ALBOMAnger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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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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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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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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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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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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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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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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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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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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