If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life. Mitch Albom More Quotes by Mitch Albom More Quotes From Mitch Albom Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks. Mitch Albom grandmadoneheaven Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142 Mitch Albom hatefathermoving The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you. Mitch Albom elementsimportantbelieve But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see. Mitch Albom differenteye Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. Mitch Albom knowing-somethingunderstandingknowing Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything. Mitch Albom hard-workbelieflove-you The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing. Mitch Albom couplebabynight Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed. Mitch Albom expressionmindlong Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? Mitch Albom tuesdays-with-morriejewelsteacher Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. Mitch Albom sacrificelosingpositive Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Mitch Albom knowssaidbelieve People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Mitch Albom doemeanpeople I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory. Mitch Albom motherfoodmemories Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. Mitch Albom xanaxour-worldsadness A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell. Mitch Albom shellsmenmemories Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will. Mitch Albom love-yougivingthinking As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity. Mitch Albom heartlongpeople This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for. Mitch Albom happenedgivinglife No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. Mitch Albom stonesstoriesrivers I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. Mitch Albom crygivingneeds
