But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
MITCH ALBOMSilence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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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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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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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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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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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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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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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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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!
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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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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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