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You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
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neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
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Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house, up to her bedroom, and down into a deep dark hole.
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Eddie thought about the years that followed his father's funeral. How he never achieved anything, how he never went anywhere. For all that time, Eddie had imagined a certain life--a "could have been" life--that would have been his if not for his father's death and his mother's subsequent collapse. Over the years, he glorified that imaginary life and held his father accountable for all of its losses: the loss of freedom, the loss of career, ..
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All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
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Eddie never said anything he felt that deeply.
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When my mother entered, wearing her nurse's outfit, her arms full of magazines, we must have said, "Hi Mom" too quickly, because she immediately became suspicious. You can see that in your mother's face right away, that "What did you kids do?" look."
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People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a love. And Eddie found a certain love with Marguerite, a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable."
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Trees spend all day looking up at God.
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Mitch Albom |
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I split my adolescence between the pulpy smell of books, which was my mother's passion, and the leathery smell of baseball gloves, which was my father's.
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Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks. "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?"
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And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
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parents
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For my disciples, the map is simple. All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you. Can humans say the same?
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them-a mother's approval, a fathers nod-are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath t..
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That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Every muscle he has was as tight as a piano wire.
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He wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, but he has something else, too. He has his yesterday.
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Mitch Albom |
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Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas nebera ypatinga. Be netekciu ar aukos mes nesugebame ivertinti to, ka turime.
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Dievas riboja musu dienu skaiciu ne be priezasties. -Kokia to priezastis? -Kad kiekviena diena butu brangi.
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time
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You closed your eyes. That was the difference. 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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Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.
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The word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless"
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Mitch Albom |
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For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them ...
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We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country," Morrie sighed. "Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning tings is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is to fogged u..
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this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
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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.
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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. According to the commentary, God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence: "Stop celebrating. For those were my children, too."
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You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent." - Morrie"
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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. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, ,all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. you know what ..
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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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Love lost, is still love...You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory.
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Mitch Albom |
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The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.
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life
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My grandparents did these things. My parents, too. If I take the pattern and throw it out, what does that say about their lives? Or mine? From generation to generation, these rituals are how we remain..." He rolled his hand, searching for the word. Connected? I said."
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Mitch Albom |
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When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
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Mitch Albom |
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Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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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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When you're in bed, you're dead"
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Mitch Albom |
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world"
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Mitch Albom |
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Love wins. Love always wins."
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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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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
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Mitch Albom |
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Don't hang on too long, but don't let go too soon."
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Mitch Albom |