I love you every day, Mom Mitch Albom More Quotes by Mitch Albom More Quotes From Mitch Albom You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. Mitch Albom running two lying I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time. Mitch Albom mortality made Life has to end, love doesn't. Mitch Albom ends If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. Mitch Albom getting-older atheism reality I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Mitch Albom love-you mean believe And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. Mitch Albom secret men heaven Everyone keeps talking about fixing and returning America - making America great. But yet, nobody ever seems to focus on the fact that you're not going to make any country great if you don't address its children. Mitch Albom talking country children Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad. Mitch Albom mirrors giving people Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly Mitch Albom sage eyebrows one-day If God wants it, it will happen. Mitch Albom ifs want happens The length of your days does not belong to you. Mitch Albom length doe One withers, another grows. Mitch Albom grows We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? Mitch Albom birth different I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself. Mitch Albom running morning night I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. Mitch Albom memoir grades writing I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. Mitch Albom self sorry people I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure. Mitch Albom trying people world Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. Mitch Albom life-changing forgiving death I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never. Mitch Albom voice hurt doe The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down. Mitch Albom being-positive ties commitment