People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Mitch Albom More Quotes by Mitch Albom More Quotes From Mitch Albom One day spent with someone you love can change everything. Mitch Albom one-day change time You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. Mitch Albom issues age beautiful The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. Mitch Albom helping men children All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. Mitch Albom criminals hard-times profound We cannot stop what Heaven chooses. Mitch Albom heaven If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete. Mitch Albom should-have sleep goodbye Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. Mitch Albom losing inspiring memories It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. Mitch Albom beautiful-life supposed-to-be too-late Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins Mitch Albom opposites winning wrestling Holding on to things only breaks your heart. Mitch Albom holding-on break heart There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins. Mitch Albom mothers-day mom stories You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart. Mitch Albom heart giving people If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom pain grief way I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart. Mitch Albom powerful mom brain In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well. Mitch Albom voice secret needs What's wrong with being number 2? Mitch Albom number-2 numbers I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories. Mitch Albom home memories thinking There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae. Mitch Albom chocolate confusion country ...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. Mitch Albom whole-life collecting wish All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. Mitch Albom family believe children
