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The length of your days does not belong to you.
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A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough."
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Mitch Albom |
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Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.
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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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Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
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Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. "And no matter how far they try to go the other way - to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty - at some point, life is over. An..
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god
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I love you every day, Mom
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love
mother
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And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
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mothers-love
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Mitch Albom |
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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life
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Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.
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love
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We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
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wrapped-up
truth
mundane-life
looking-back
realization
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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
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Mitch Albom |
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You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
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Mitch Albom |
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There is no formula to relationships.
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Mitch Albom |
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Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.
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Mitch Albom |
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sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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Mitch Albom |
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Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.
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Mitch Albom |
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The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.
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Mitch Albom |
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I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz
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Mitch Albom |
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the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.
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the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
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Mitch Albom |
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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Mitch Albom |
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Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.
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Mitch Albom |
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the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Mitch Albom |
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Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me."
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Mitch Albom |
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Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
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wanted
truth
wish
children
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
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war
patriotism
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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past
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People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.
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life
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There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
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having-children
responsibility
family
life
love
truth
experience
children
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War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
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war
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This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.
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Mitch Albom |
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if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed." She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you."
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Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. 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 vulnerability that loving entails.
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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.
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Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take noth..
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Mitch Albom |
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But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.
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mothers-love
mothers
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Mitch Albom |
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Belief, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything.
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life
love
hardwork
belief
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.
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Mitch Albom |
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When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.
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lost-love
ghost
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Mitch Albom |
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Love each other or perish.
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Mitch Albom |
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when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.
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happiness
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