Quotes by "Mitch Albom"

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

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

Going back to something is harder than you think.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

There are five people you meet in heaven. 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. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.