You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before..… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“[...] if you're trying to show off for people, at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“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… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
“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.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
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… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
![“People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all…” quote by Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/39c/mitch-albom-187_certain_people-say-they-find-love-as-if-it-were_3075289.jpg)
![“[...] 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.” quote by Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15b/mitch-albom-187_bottom_if-you-re-trying-to-show-off-for-people_1533415.png)
