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"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. " Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way." So which side wins, I ask? "Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins." --
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mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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Mitch Albom |
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Time flies with you
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the-time-keeper
thoughtful
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Mitch Albom |
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"It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power---in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone."
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mitch-albom
marriage
religion
god
happiness
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Mitch Albom |
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"You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives."
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mitch-albom
teacher
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Mitch Albom |
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"We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials."
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mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.
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mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.
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the-timekeeper
mitch-albom
god
life-lessons
life
inspirational
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Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? -Morrie Schwartz
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mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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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. But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.
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for-one-more-day
mitch-albom
love
parents
mother
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Mitch Albom |
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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
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tuesdays-with-morrie
mitch-albom
inspirational
growth
aging
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Mitch Albom |
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"If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is "YOU"
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the-reb
mitch-albom
religion
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Mitch Albom |
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Bila kita diberi waktu tak terbatas, tidak ada lagi yang istimewa. Tanpa kehilangan atau pengorbanan, kita tidak bisa menghargai apa yang kita punya
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mitch-albom
the-time-keeper
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Mitch Albom |
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"Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days." "What is the reason?" "Finish your journey and you will know."
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mitch-albom
the-time-keeper
wisdom
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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the-time-keeper
wisdom
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