--- title: "7 Too busy Quotes By Mitch Albom" description: "7 Too busy quotes by Mitch Albom. Plus more from Mitch Albom and more Too busy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/mitch-albom-187_afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_367946.png" --- > [If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you-don-t-allow-yourself-to-go/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/mitch-albom-187_afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_367946.png) > [“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/take-any-emotion-love-for-a-woman-or-grief-for-a-loved-one-or-what-i/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/761/mitch-albom-187_emotion_take-any-emotion-love-for-a-woman-or-gri_1055679.png) > [If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you-don-t-allow-yourself-to-go-2/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/829/mitch-albom-187_being-afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_1495046.jpg) > [“So many times, I had chosen not to be with her. Too busy. Too tires. Don't feel like dealing with it. Church?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/so-many-times-i-had-chosen-not-to-be-with-her-too-busy-too-tires-don/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/mitch-albom-187_next-week_so-many-times-i-had-chosen-not-to-be-wit_1633480.jpg) > [“If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you-don-t-allow-yourself-to-go-3/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b63/mitch-albom-187_grief_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_2265683.png) > [“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/take-any-emotion-love-for-a-woman-or-grief-for-a-loved-one-or-what-i-2/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33b/mitch-albom-187_cognizant_take-any-emotion-love-for-a-woman-or-gri_2318352.jpg) > [“If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you-don-t-allow-yourself-to-go-4/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ad/mitch-albom-187_grief_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_2797455.png) ## Other authors on Too busy ## More by Mitch Albom > [“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/he-wondered-how-it-was-fair-that-your-dying-should-depend-so-much-on/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/after-the-funeral-my-life-changed-i-felt-as-if-time-were-suddenly/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/the-words-people-do-not-speak-are-louder-than-the-ones-they-do/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/once-lovers-on-faraway-shores-sat-by-candlelight-and-dipped-ink-to/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/giving-to-other-people-makes-me-feel-alive-not-my-car-or-my-house-not/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [Life goes quickly, doesn't it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/life-goes-quickly-doesn-t-it/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/as-children-grow-they-gravitate-to-their-fates/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-the-only-thing-wrong-with-moses-is-that-he-s-not-yours-if-the-only/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/sometimes-your-kids-will-say-the-nastiest-things-won-t-they-rose-you/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“whisper their good-byes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/whisper-their-good-byes/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/i-had-also-developed-my-own-culture-work-over-the-years-i-had-taken/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/when-we-are-most-alone-is-when-we-embrace-another-s-loneliness/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/you-didn-t-get-it-sacrifice-is-a-part-of-life-it-s-supposed-to-be-it/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/i-give-myself-a-good-cry-if-i-need-it-but-then-i-concentrate-on-the/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) > [It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/it-was-sad-the-imbalance-of-it-all-why-do-kids-assume-so-much-from/) [Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-busy/mitch-albom/#itemlist", "name": "7 Too busy Quotes By Mitch Albom", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mitch Albom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you-don-t-allow-yourself-to-go/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/mitch-albom-187_afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_367946.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/mitch-albom-187_afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_367946.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/mitch-albom-187_afraid_if-you-hold-back-on-the-emotions-if-you_367946.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never…” — Mitch Albom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. 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