Mitch Albom quotes - page 9

It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets. (Mitch Albom)
In the stories about life and death, the soul often floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world. Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance. View quote
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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're in the dark. Even when you're falling. View quote
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Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation. View quote
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. View quote
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. View quote
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Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.' View quote
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf. View quote
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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. View quote
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I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. View quote
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Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? (Mitch Albom)
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. View quote
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I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones. View quote
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.' View quote
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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. View quote
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions. View quote
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window. View quote
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You have to work at creating your own culture. View quote
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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. View quote
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' View quote
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace. (Mitch Albom)
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die. View quote
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. View quote
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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've find meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. View quote
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Don't hang on too long, but don't let go too soon. View quote
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