No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. "I gave up," I whispered. "Don't give up," she whispered… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I prefer them broken.' 'Why is that?' Victor said. Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers. 'Because I am… — 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
“But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Ruby stepped toward him. “Edward,” she said softly. It was the first time she had called him by name. “Learn this from… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it… So we kid ourselves about death… But there's a better approach. To… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Dor came from a time before the written word, a time when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There are five people you meet in Heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair—signs of life, not death—his… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study… — 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
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do… — 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
