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Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of thi..
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will share a secret: this is how talents are bestowed. Before newborns open their eyes, we circle them, appearing as brilliant colors, and when they clench their tiny hands for the first time, they are actually grabbing the colors they find most appealing. Those talents are with them for life. The lucky ones (well, in my opinion, the lucky ones) choose me. Music. From that point on, I live inside your every hum and whistle, every pluck of a..
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Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you." He squeezed my hand gently. I squeezed back harder. And like that carnival contest where you bang a hammer and watch the disk rise up the pole, I could almost see my body heat rise up Morrie's chest and neck into his cheeks and eyes. He smiled."
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Cuando cae un rayo despues de que te hayas ido, o se estrella un avion en el que podrias haber estado. Cuando tu companero de trabajo enferma y tu no. Creemos que esas cosas son fortuitas, pero hay un equilibrio en todo. Uno se marchita, otro crece. El nacimiento y la muerte forman parte de un todo.
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I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend.
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Mitch Albom |
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It is not just humans who are musical. Animals, too. This should be obvious in the thousands of birdsongs I have spawned, or the clicking of dolphins, or the moaning of humpback whales.
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After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot - how could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized that was the whole point.
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Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it. Frankie
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Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neatly and sweetly, like a valentine tucked in an envelope. Humans grow dizzy from new affection,
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." "What's that?" "Hope." The shame welled up inside her, and once again, she wept. She missed her mother more than ever. "I'm so sorry," Sarah gasped, tears pouring down her cheeks. "It just felt like ... the end." "Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows."
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In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
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Mitch Albom |
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Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
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Mitch Albom |
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you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it
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I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All
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Mitch Albom |
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Did God answer you? He smiled. "Still waiting," he said."
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Mitch Albom |
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People are only mean when they're threatened.
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losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without."
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the old man asked again. "When I'm gone." His eyes blinked from behind his glasses. His neatly trimmed beard was gray, and he stood slightly stooped. Are you dying? I asked. "Not yet," he said, grinning. Then why-- "Because I think you would"
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Mitch Albom |
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The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do...
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Mitch Albom |
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The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43)
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but her absence was like a character in it.
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Mitch Albom |
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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart
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Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost.
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Believe, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything.
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Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other, the front wave tells the second wave he's frightened because he is about to shore-crash and cease to exist, but the second wave tells him that he is not, as he is part of the ocean
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At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.
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All he heard was his own labored breathing, followed by an echo of that breathing. He inhaled and heard a louder inhale. He exhaled, and it exhaled too. Eddie squeezed his eyes shut. Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken, and Eddie knew.
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He used the haunting phrase, "Alas for what has been lost."
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Small towns begin with a sign. The words can be as simple as the title of a story--Welcome to Harberville, Now entering Clawson--but once you cross, you are inside that story, and all that you do will be part of its tale.
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What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire
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He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.
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When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it"."
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Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and now is my time to be seventy-eight.
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the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went
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Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.
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proving heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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Mitch Albom |
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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
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kids
pain
marriage
thoughts
plain-truth
divorce
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Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
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Mitch Albom |
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Common sense has no place in first love and never has.
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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
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People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman."
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The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.
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ut heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.
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