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Without love we all like birds with broken wings.
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I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. . . . twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little..
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Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
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life-lessons
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It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.
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Mitch Albom |
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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 pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions,..
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pain
grief
life
love
truth
detachment
emotions
vulnerability
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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inspirational
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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
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understanding
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Mitch Albom |
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
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life
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have'. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
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have-a-little-faith
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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. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
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faith
inspirational
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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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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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time
ordinary
important
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Mitch Albom |
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Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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Mitch Albom |
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There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell
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Mitch Albom |
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Kids chase the love that eludes them.
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.
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Mitch Albom |
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A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
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Mitch Albom |
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
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Mitch Albom |
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That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it.
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It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes
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It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up." --
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There is a reason God limits man's days.
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Mitch Albom |
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You are not your past.
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Mitch Albom |
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All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
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Mitch Albom |
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No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.
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It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.
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Mitch Albom |
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I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
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Mitch Albom |
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be greatful." That's it? "For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. "That's it."
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Mitch Albom |
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We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?
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morrie
tuesdays
with
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Mitch Albom |
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Secrets tear you apart.
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Mitch Albom |
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Mitch Albom |
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I am in love with Hope.
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Mitch Albom |
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Mitch Albom |
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But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
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Mitch Albom |
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When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Mitch Albom |
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It might 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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Mitch Albom |
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The little things, I can obey. 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.
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self-determination
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Mitch Albom |
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When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
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Mitch Albom |
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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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Mitch Albom |
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Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
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mother
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Mitch Albom |
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But fates are connected in ways we don't understand.
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Mitch Albom |