Mitch Albom Quotes
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
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People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
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If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
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I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
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In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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Love each other or die.
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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.
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.