Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. — 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
So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful?… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man… — 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 was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the… — 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
