Accept who you are and revel in that.
—Mitch Albom
Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Death
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.
—Mitch Albom
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Memory
Be compassionate … and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
—Mitch Albom
All endings are also beginnings, we just don’t know that at the time.
—Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Fear
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.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Good, Work, People
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Weapon, Anger
The biggest defect we human beings have is our short-sightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Potential
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.
—Mitch Albom
You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Action, Give, Act
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Give
Here’s what I mean by building your own subculture…I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose for yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.
—Mitch Albom
Topics: Light, Think, Little Things
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