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.
MITCH ALBOMBut our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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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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The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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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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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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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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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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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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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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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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