I love you every day, Mom Mitch Albom More Quotes by Mitch Albom More Quotes From Mitch Albom Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have." Mitch Albom dying feelings giving That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays Mitch Albom make-sense yesterday heaven Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world Mitch Albom apathetic emotion world A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. Mitch Albom genuine comfort book I like myself better when I'm with you. Mitch Albom standing-tall he-makes-me-feel life Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. Mitch Albom unheard giving-up giving Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt. Mitch Albom parenting hurt kids Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. Mitch Albom family stranger knows Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken. Mitch Albom silence-is silence broken 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 comforting giving way You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship Mitch Albom substitutes inspirational life 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. Mitch Albom love children fall This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. Mitch Albom offering In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else. Mitch Albom mother latin positive Going back to something is harder than you think. Mitch Albom one-more-day harder thinking When you are measuring life, you are not living it. Mitch Albom measuring Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Mitch Albom community love-you people With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have Mitch Albom endless-time sacrifice loss When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. Mitch Albom embrace loneliness Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man Mitch Albom life-and-death blue men