Mitch Albom Quotes
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
Quotes to Explore
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I really love storytelling.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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I have this really big face.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
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Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.
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I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
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But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
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If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
