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The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. 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 so 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..
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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.
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Mitch Albom |
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diferentes podemos ser? >>Invierte en la familia humana. Invierte en las personas. Construye una pequena comunidad con los que amas y con los que te aman.
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Mitch Albom |
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Par katru dzivi ir divi stasti: tas, ko tu izdzivo, un tas, ko stasta citi.
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Mitch Albom |
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I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.
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Mitch Albom |
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It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it. "The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads--none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of--unconditional love, unconditional atten..
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Mitch Albom |
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It was a cutthroat business, dog eat dog, the strong preying on the weak. In the lifestyle I was in, people were killed. It happened every day.
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Mitch Albom |
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The next morning, shortly after sunrise, the Reb was awakened for a sponge bath. It was quiet and early. The nurse bathed him gently, and he was singing and humming to her, alive with the day. Then his head slumped and his music stopped forever.
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Mitch Albom |
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You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you would later invoke many times with many of us: "try again." And you did. Thank God you did."
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Mitch Albom |
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I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.
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short-term
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When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted, as his penance, a gesture. You waited until the Catholic schoolkids were in recess, playing in the schoolyard, then you and the priest strolled around the perimeter, arm in arm, showing that different faiths can indeed walk side by side, in harmony.
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Mitch Albom |
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This is your house, Reb. You are in the rafters, the floorboards, the walls, the lights. You are in every echo through every hallway. We hear you now. I hear you still. How can I--how can any of us--let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death.
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Mitch Albom |
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A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a world with a little less God in it, and yet, because God is not a diminishing resource, I cannot believe that. Instead, I have to believe that you have melted back into His glory, your soul is like a returned favor, you are a star in his sky and..
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Mitch Albom |
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He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one--except Teela, his shopping companion and health care worker, who delivered the tape to his family. It was brief. But in it, the Reb answered the two questions he had most been asked in his life of faith. One was whether he believed in God. He said he did. The other was whether there is life after death. On this he said, "My answer here, too, is yes, there is somethin..
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Mitch Albom |
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Back in the sanctuary, the Reb concluded his taped message by saying, "Please love one another, talk to one another, don't let trivialities dissolve friendships..." Then he sang a simple tune, which translated to: "Good-bye friends, good-bye friends, good-bye, good-bye, see you again, see you again, good-bye." The congregation, one last time, joined in. You could say it was the loudest prayer of his career. But I always knew he'd go out wit..
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Mitch Albom |
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Dan bila kita masih melihat diri kita lewat masa lalu kita, kita tidak melihat apa yang telah dilakukan oleh Tuhan. Apa yang dapat Tuhan lakukan! Kita tidak melihat hal-hal kecil yang terjadi di dalam hidup kita --
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Mitch Albom |
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Let [love] come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.
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Mitch Albom |
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Dying is one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.' 'For one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.
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Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
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Mitch Albom |
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There are five people you meet in Heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what Heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
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Mitch Albom |
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Jack," she said, "I just spoke to our son." "Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings."
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Mitch Albom |
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An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.
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Mitch Albom |
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
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Mitch Albom |
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la perdida le habia ensenado algo muy importante: afferrarse a lo material <>
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la perdida le habia ensenado algo muy importante: aferrarse a lo material 'solo sirve para ser un desgraciado'.
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Mitch Albom |
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Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.
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Mitch Albom |
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With each new carving, he spoke out loud. He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.
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Mitch Albom |
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Holding anger is poison
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Mitch Albom |
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The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a 33 year old, I'm a 5 year old, I am a 37 year old, I am a 50 year old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
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Mitch Albom |
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Wherever I went in my life, I met people who wanted to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?' You know how I always interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never wor..
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Mitch Albom |
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Iti poti imagina sa ai un timp infinit la dispozitie pentru a invata?
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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Mitch Albom |
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There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live...' So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself that I will.
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." The"
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It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrate, as if singing back to him. He sang an A; the A string shook. The idea of connecting voices through a wire was born. But it was not a new idea. We call out; we are answered. It has been that way from the beginning of belief, and it continues ..
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Mitch Albom |
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Its the inner torture of every captured soldier, the shot distance between freedom and seizure.
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Mitch Albom |
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A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered-it all demands a fierce revenge
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Mitch Albom |
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Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made. Everything that gets born, dies. As long as we love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of all those you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
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Mitch Albom |
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Holding anger is a poison.
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Mitch Albom |
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How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you?
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Mitch Albom |
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A woman has been chosen. The gift of heaven on earth. This will become the biggest story in the world. Coldwater, Michigan. Ask a man of God. One call will confirm everything.
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Mitch Albom |
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Once, he had prided himself on keeping time with water. But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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Mitch Albom |
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Parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorb the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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Mitch Albom |
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Y sin esperanza, el tiempo es un castigo
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