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.
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We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

Mitch Albom

Mitch,if you're trying to show off for people at the top,forget it.They will look down at you anyhow.And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom,forget it.They will only envy you.Status will get you nowhere.Only an open heart will allow...

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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

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Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

Mitch Albom

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Mitch Albom

if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if yo...

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But I do know we’re deficient in some way. 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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You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by...

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Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

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We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into ...

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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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This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams

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You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

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You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you�...

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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

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We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

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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