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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. We move through places everyday that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time - we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.
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I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
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We're gonna make up for that. We're gonna live a long time together.
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Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?
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At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.
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life
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He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
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Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.
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Mitch Albom |
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So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.
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Mitch Albom |
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You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen,
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Timing is everything. That's right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it's the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly"
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.
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Mitch Albom |
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So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!
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Never tell a child that something it's too hard
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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.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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Mitch Albom |
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She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.
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You really loved her?' 'I would have given my life.' 'Would you have taken it?' 'No, child,' he said. 'That is not ours to do.
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But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
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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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Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon.
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Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.
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This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.
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Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them all."
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What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and asked that he play it for her every day, as if his music could pierce her silence. Decades later, at Bell's deathbed, it was his wife who made the sounds, saying the words, "Don't leave me," while he, no longer able to talk, used sign language to answer, No."
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Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's
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heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
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I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive."
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Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.
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What is false about hope?
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faith
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But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it? "That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens."
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Man invents nothing God did not create first.
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How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?
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fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is 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. Sometimes when you sacr..
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Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.
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What's time between a mother and her daughter?Never too much, never enough.
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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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. That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
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I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
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He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment."
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Perdonare "Forgive Yourself)"
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When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne"
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I believe in being fully present." "That means you should be with the person you're with." ... "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you."
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Lines formed at Ruby Pier- just as a line formed someplace else; five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have her questions answered- why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of..
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