Mitch Albom Quotes

The lust for power is combustible thing

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

The greatest thing, you’ll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return. He

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them acc...

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It’s why the act of burying things seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting...

What if I lose you?You can't lose your mother, Charley.

What happened next depends on how much you believe.

Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.

To my Charley on his wedding day –I know you think these notes are silly. I have watched you scrunch your face over the years when I give them to you. But understand that sometimes I want to tell you...

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your lifewhile you're living.

This is what it said: In heaven, we can see you. . . . We can feel you. . . . We know your pain, your tears, but we feel no pain or tears ourselves. . . . There are no bodies here . . . there is no ag...

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

I give myself a good cry if i need it. A little each morning, a few tears and that's all.

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works, You can't substitute material thing...

They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they’re marrying?

To my Charley on his wedding day –…Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love:Each other.Your children...

Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

There was, in the construction of the universe, us down here, God up there, and you in between. When God seemed too intimidating to face, we could first come to you. It was like befriending the secret...