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What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your
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People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
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love
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It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves."
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As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that hold it -so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into something being born..
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I have come to teach you that there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. ... Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel that they ? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between tak..
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We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.
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Hati yang utuh adalah hati yang pernah patah.
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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All throughout the universe, time resumed and nature sang.
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Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?' You have peace,' the old woman said, 'when you make it with yourself.
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Mitch Albom |
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You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them
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Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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Inside all humans is the entirety of your memories, the ones you can access and the ones you cannot.
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He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like? "We will hold hands," Morrie said. "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friend..
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Did you know," the old woman said now, standing beside the grown-up Annie, "that a dog will go to a crying human before a smiling one? Dogs get sad when people around them get sad. They're created that way. It's called empathy. "Humans have it, too. But it gets blocked by other things--ego, self-pity, thinking your own pain must be tended to first. Dogs don't have those issues."
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A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and ..
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The hands of a clock will find their way home.
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People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. - 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.
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You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened
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You were one person, and you changed the world.
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What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God."
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god
tree
dialogue
wish
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The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.
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He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139
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How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?
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faith
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love
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Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.
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With Marguerite, he wanted only time--more and more time--and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
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Mitch Albom |
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No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
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life
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
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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."
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
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The carnivals gave me my names, Edward. Sometimes I was the Blue Man of the North Pole, or the Blue Man of Algeria, or the Blue Man of New Zealand. I had never been to any of these places, of course, but it was pleasant to be considered exotic, if only on a painted sign. The 'show' was simple. I would sit on the stage, half undressed, as people walked past and the barker told them how pathetic I was. For this, I was able to put a few coins ..
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Mitch Albom |
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You were never alone.
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A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.
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But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain, they cry, they yearn, they they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they looked up, which is what I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your o..
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Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father."
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Mitch Albom |
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It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often."
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
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Mitch Albom |
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The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.
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Mitch Albom |
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If we love something and somebody so much, how much--if at all--are they ever really gone from our hearts?
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Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley?" "Yeah," I mumbled. "It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it."
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Mitch Albom |
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I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.
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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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