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| ffdedb6 | Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. 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. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't." | Mitch Albom | ||
| c2410d0 | It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature." He smiled at the plant. "We're not. Everything that gets born, dies." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3185a64 | The genius of life is its variety. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fe2ec55 | but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, "Oh, if I were young again." You never hear people say, "I wish I were sixty-five." He smiled. "You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five. "Listen. You should know some.. | death | Mitch Albom | |
| 674c602 | You might say that is "too young" to die. But what is too young for a life?" -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| bf8abf0 | So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 3b83206 | All right. In that final minute, I would say, 'Look, Lord, I've done X amount of good stuff on earth. I have tried to follow your teachings and to pass them on. I have loved my family. I've been part of a community. And I have been, I think, fairly good to people. "'So, Heavenly Father, for all this, what is my reward?"' And what do you think God will say? He smiled. "He'll say, 'Reward?" | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9139ab4 | Why suffer in front of so many people? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0e922ca | Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 23ee52e | The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' " He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3cacb80 | Mitch," he said, "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 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.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 450fdce | And, age is not a competitive issue. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ab52c62 | 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 works, You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b17282c | Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 4773e12 | 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,.. | love feeling vulnerability | Mitch Albom | |
| 24bcc27 | 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. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship. Morrie's approach was exactly the opposite. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't .. | loneliness feelings fear vulnerability | Mitch Albom | |
| cefc3b8 | They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. "Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how mu.. | materialism | Mitch Albom | |
| 5e75f6c | Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4bcd58d | I've learned this much about marriage," he said now. "You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 091ce3e | But all endings are also beginnings. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 958fd31 | It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves." Ourselves? "Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9c6b03a | It's the blending of the different notes that makes the music. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0855232 | simplicity and surrender to the universe. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 45f3761 | But the Reb, I'd learned, was like a tough old tree; he bent with the storms but he would not snap. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f23979 | I found I could share almost anything with Reb. He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 311d9bd | I thought you were a narcissist." Koppel burst into laughter. "I'm too ugly to be a narcissist," he said." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 023ac31 | If I can't see them or hear them, how can I help them? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 20712f7 | America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. But there still seemed to be no clear answers. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d342793 | Most religions warn against war, yet more wars have been fought over religion than perhaps anything else. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 680498a | Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days." "What is the reason?" "Finish your journey and you will know." | mitch-albom the-time-keeper wisdom | Mitch Albom | |
| fd5c10a | You can't fit the Lord in a box. But you can gather stories, tradition, wisdom, and in time, you needn't lower the shelf; God is already nearer to thee. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a33ce8b | All right. In that final minute, I would say, 'Look, Lord, I've done X amount of good stuff on earth. I have tried to follow your teachings and to pass them on. I have loved my family. I've been part of a community. And I have been, I think, fairly good to people. "'So, Heavenly Father, for all this, what is my reward?"' And what do you think God will say? He smiled. "He'll say, 'Reward? What reward? That's what you were supposed to do!" | Mitch Albom | ||
| d4605f1 | the power of language | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6f2c4f7 | faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe | Mitch Albom | ||
| 68fdd2d | I wondered, now that his days were dwindling, how important ritual still was. "Vital," he said. But why? Deep inside, you know your convictions. "Mitch," he said, "faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 570ee93 | Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.' 'A fear of time running out. | mitch-albom the-time-keeper wisdom | Mitch Albom | |
| b1ffbdf | Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e55b246 | no religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God; | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8312cdf | We who are born, are born to die. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9cf47aa | There was, in the construction of the universe, us down here, God up there, and you in between. When God seemed too intimidating to face, we could first come to you. It was like befriending the secretary outside the boss's office. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 26c7ee7 | respected man once said, that the | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5e3da88 | But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 44c6893 | But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith's authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else. | Mitch Albom | ||
| abaa851 | When you give, you get," he said." | Mitch Albom |