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
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
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
To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart. — 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
“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
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
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — 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 could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
