Mitch Albom Quotes

But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

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

There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way. So which side wins, I ask? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. Love wins. Love always wins.

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of lo...

Love is the only rational act.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I dis...

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.

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and...

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

Dying, Morrie suddenly said, is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in...

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. Yo...

But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith’s authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be grateful. That's it? For what you have. For the love you rec...

She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't

We wrestle with conflicting urges. Christianity believes Satan tempts us with evil. Hindus see evil as a challenge to life’s balance. Judaism refers to a man’s righteous inclination versus his evil in...