Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
MITCH ALBOMI think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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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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The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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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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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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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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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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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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