Mitch Albom Quotes

It’s amazing how folks can’t see you, ’cause they want to keep you in that past.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch, he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves. Ourselves? Yes. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You...

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Let [love] come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act.

Lines formed at Ruby Pier- just as a line formed someplace else; five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to f...

Living without love wassomething he knew more about than anysoul on Earth. The more Sarah spoke ofloneliness, the clearer it became why hewas there.

Look and see, for everyone is coming home. Your sons are coming from distant lands; your little daughters will be carried on the hip. Your eyes will shine and your hearts will thrill with joy.

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory...

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, ke...

Love wins, love always wins.

Man alone measures time.Man alone chimes the hour.And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures.A fear of time running out.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.

Marguerite said something about the bikini bathing suits the young girls were wearing and how she would never have the nerve to wear such a thing. Eddie said the girls were lucky, because if she did t...

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and n...