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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.
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love
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Stay with me." "Forever."
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And when gods touched something, the normal became the supernatural, the simple became the wondrous.
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You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
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Mitch Albom |
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Time is not something you give back
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Mitch Albom |
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All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.
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He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved."
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Dor came from a time before the written word, a time when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. 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. They constantly checked their devices to see what time it was-- the very thing Dor had tried to determine once with a stick, a stone, and a shadow.
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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 pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
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I [Music] was born in the open air, in the breaks of waves and the whistling of sandstorms, the hoots of owls and the cackles of tui birds. I travel in echoes. I ride the breeze. I was forged in nature, rugged and raw. Only man shapes my edges to make me beautiful. [Chapter 2]
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Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.
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I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
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graduation
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Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
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Things that happen before you are born still affect you,' she said. 'And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places every day 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.' She tapped her fingertips together. 'If not for Emile, I would have no husband. IF not for our marriage, there wou..
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His body had been weakened, the ocen had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took ahold of him, and in time, he died.' Because of Mickey?' Eddie said. Because of loyalty,' she said. People don't die because of loyalty.' They don't?' She smiled. 'Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?... Better,... to be loyal to one another.' ~pg 138
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Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
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faith
differences
humble
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Then why do we do so many bad things? He sighed. "Because one thing God gave us--and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much--is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely."
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freedom
free-will
evil
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if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.
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values
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What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
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After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For those were my children,too." "What do you think of that?" the teacher asks us. Someone else answers. But I know what I think. I think it is the first time I've heard that God might love the "enemy" as well as us."
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Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
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When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.
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Mitch Albom |
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The greatest thing, you'll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return." He"
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.
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Mitch Albom |
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I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go
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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.
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Common sense would have told Sarah to steer clear of Ethan's waters. But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
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Mitch Albom |
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In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
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Mitch Albom |
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some things you endure for a reason
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and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
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Why do you want to die?' I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe. 'You knew...?' She gave a sad smile. 'I'm your mother.
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intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become.
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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 being taken and being missed, lives are changed." "...We think such thngs are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole." "It is why we are drawn to babies..." "And to funerals."
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour?" Dor said. "It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time." He lowered his hand from Victor's eyes. "When you are measuring time, you are not living it. I know."
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Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
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Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu
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god
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A funeral is no place for secrets.
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loss
funeral
grieving
secrets
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The End is coming. What will you do with the time you have left?
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Mitch Albom |
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ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die. But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.
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When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel. Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
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The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air--until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "'My God, this is terrible,' the wave says. 'Look what's going to happen to me!' "Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?' "The first wave says, 'You don't underst..
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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 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." Yes, I said, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, "Oh, if I were young again." ..
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Mitch Albom |
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with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.
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Mitch Albom |
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You're not getting it," Eddie gently replied. "I needed to save you. It let me make up for the life I took. That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right."
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