No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
MITCH ALBOMAll endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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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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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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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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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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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 go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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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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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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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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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway – most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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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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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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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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Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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