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| ab839b1 | Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn't bite you and it doesn't weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 93cab97 | When you're an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fea07aa | Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind, so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b39208d | But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair--signs of life, not death--his body is lean, his skin unwrinkled, immune to the very thing he lords over. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 23bc2a5 | Her death was as insignificant as her life. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 813cb80 | Love. . . . You are born in it . . . you return to it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ec35d72 | And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence -- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4b52315 | I give myself a good cry if i need it. A little each morning, a few tears and that's all. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 95df2cf | I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above, it's just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love... | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1e8c23c | Amazing, I thought. I worked in the news business. I covered stories where people died. I interviewed grieving family members. I even attended the funerals. I never cried. Morrie, for the suffering of people half a world away, was weeping. Is 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 | Mitch Albom | ||
| 959c0f0 | Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?'" He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. "Is today the day I die?" he said." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 49270d4 | What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow of time completely ... | Mitch Albom | ||
| 500d7d3 | Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b55836f | He tells my parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, "You have a special boy here." Embarrassed, I look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the front. I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me. "Mitch, you are one of the good ones," he says, admiring the briefcase. Then he hugs me. I feel his .. | teacher-student-affair | Mitch Albom | |
| 2595da3 | Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide | Mitch Albom | ||
| 99e2150 | when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b91aef9 | You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance--to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? | Mitch Albom | ||
| a55d3e9 | No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. | loneliness | Mitch Albom | |
| 8581195 | As I crossed the street, my sister yelled out the window, "Do you want us to bring you a cone?" and I thought, You're so stupid, Roberta, cones melt." | Mitch Albom | ||
| ea24a31 | That is often why you come to music, isn't it? To feel that you are not alone? | Mitch Albom | ||
| d5135ec | Do not cry over losing blood. Not for something you love. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 65c48f1 | I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. | everyday-life feelings loneliness paint tears | Mitch Albom | |
| cdefadf | Our 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 involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habbit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something mi.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 43c5af2 | Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8b1c54f | Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out." | childhood kids pain parents work-things-out | Mitch Albom | |
| f6eea29 | Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fa8b1a8 | A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams | teacher | Mitch Albom | |
| e772b04 | I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone." | Mitch Albom | ||
| bce665c | We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have | Mitch Albom | ||
| 096d069 | It's such a big world," She'd say wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere." | Mitch Albom | ||
| b1f9db6 | She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't | love | Mitch Albom | |
| ded722e | Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 84130cb | For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take | Mitch Albom | ||
| 84838ba | Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9e4c73e | Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of th.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0d5fd35 | 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. But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always.. | for-one-more-day love mitch-albom mother parents | Mitch Albom | |
| dc47afe | Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7bcb18c | Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. | Douglas Preston | ||
| b888f10 | We live in a world gone crazy for resources. Everybody on Google Earth can look at this place now. If you don't move to protect it, it will disappear. Everything in the world is vulnerable. | Douglas Preston | ||
| fb2e685 | Niccolo, for God's sake, they accused me of being an accessory to murder, they said I planted a gun at that villa, they've indicted me for making false statements and obstruction of justice! They threatened me if I ever return to Italy. And you tell me I shouldn't be concerned?" "My dear Douglas, anyone who is anybody in Italy is I offer you my congratulations on becoming a genuine Italian." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7c3e7c2 | But we were just picnicking friends | Douglas Preston | ||
| f584b87 | Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable. | pendergast sleep | Douglas Preston | |
| 48a8641 | There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty." | Douglas Preston | ||
| bf556f1 | The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it had broken off from the ancient continent of Laurasia. Her territory encompassed more than five hundred square miles, and it stretched from the shores of the ancient Niobrara inland sea to the foothills of the newly minted Rocky Mountains. | Douglas Preston |