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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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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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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We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.
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I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.
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I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
