There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something… — 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
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more… — 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
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
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a… — 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
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your… — 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
When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend.… — 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
It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all… — 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
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
When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something… — 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
“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
