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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else?
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have
little
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What's wrong with being number 2?
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Mitch Albom |
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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 CERTAIN love."
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Mitch Albom |
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The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .
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Mitch Albom |
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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life
truth
status
open-heart
nowhere
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
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Mitch Albom |
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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 p..
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Mitch Albom |
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I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know
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Mitch Albom |
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Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.Sounds..
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Mitch Albom |
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I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
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Mitch Albom |
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No soul remembered is ever really gone.
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Mitch Albom |
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
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Mitch Albom |
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You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
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Mitch Albom |
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There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
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recast
take-back
moments
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Mitch Albom |
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Things change when you're not in danger anymore.
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change
life
danger
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Mitch Albom |
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Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]
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tuesdays-with-morrie
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But now I gotta pay,' he said. To pay?' For my sin. That's why I'm here, right? Justice?' The Blue Man smiled. 'No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you...That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more seperate a breeze from the wind.' ...'It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ai..
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Mitch Albom |
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I am every age, up to my own.
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Mitch Albom |
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Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem
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Mitch Albom |
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I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.
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Mitch Albom |
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There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the present, children who had not yet been born, side by side, hand in hand, in caps, in short pants, filling the boardwalk and the rides and the wooden platforms, sitting on each other's shoulders, sitting in each other's laps. They were there, or would be there, becuause of the simple mundane thin..
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Mitch Albom |
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I'm in love with hope.
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Mitch Albom |
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Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is"."
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fear
immersion
truth-inspirational
help
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You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
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relationships
life
love
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Mitch Albom |
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Lost love is still love.
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Mitch Albom |
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Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
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Mitch Albom |
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This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.
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life
truth
offer
respect
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Mitch Albom |
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Mitch Albom |
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But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
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Mitch Albom |
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And if you don't commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side. What's on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone"
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Mitch Albom |
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
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life-lessons
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Mitch Albom |
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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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Mitch Albom |
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The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
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people
love
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Mitch Albom |
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Because we embrace our scars more than our healing. [...] We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?
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Mitch Albom |
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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,' you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
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truth
shortsightedness
potential
society
human-beings
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Mitch Albom |
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I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be a bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. Like Sarah says, 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 ..
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Mitch Albom |
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I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose."
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Mitch Albom |
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Consider the word "time." We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything chang..
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Mitch Albom |
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Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
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success
questions
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Mitch Albom |
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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? Is today the day I die?
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Mitch Albom |
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No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.
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inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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3d246ba
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When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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Mitch Albom |
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All who are born are always dying.
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living
dying
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Mitch Albom |