Quotes by Mitch Albom

About Mitch Albom:

Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

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The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

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Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

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There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth." Eddie looked confu...

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How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

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My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all...

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What is false about hope?

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I think people believe what they want to believe.

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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, a...

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Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.' Fifty-six,' Eddie said blankly. Fifty-six,' the old woman repeated. 'His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he die...

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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

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They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

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It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

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Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

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Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.

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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much ...

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As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it wit...

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Author Bio

  • NameMitch Albom
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornMay 23, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Radio Host; Novelist; Journalist
  • WorksTuesdays With Morrie; The Five People You Meet In Heaven; For One More Day