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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.. Mitch Albom

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you,

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Lost love is still love. 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.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.. Mitch Albom

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.. Mitch Albom

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.. Mitch Albom

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Love wins, love always wins.. Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.. Mitch Albom

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.. Mitch Albom

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.. Mitch Albom

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu

What is false about hope?

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

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?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.

Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth.
"I gave up," I whispered.
"Don't give up," she whispered back.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

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?

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be."

He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

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 …

Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at the time.

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".

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

No one gets left behind, remember?

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said.
"Yes."
Do they ever make more sense?
"No.

The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy

All weddings... It never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all records.

Dor felt a warm, calming feeling when he said those words- she is my wife - because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him , forever around.

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.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

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 the waters of their lives.

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. i traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized i was doing it. (page 33)

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.

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

‏اگر چه گونه مردن را یاد بگیری ، چه گونه زیستن را نیز فرا خواهی گرفت.

What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.

Then why do we do so many bad things?
He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us - and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much - is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

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.

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

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.

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.
The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"
Not like that, I said.
"No," he agreed. "Not like that.

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

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