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Up Quotes by Mitch Albom
- I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
- The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all…
- In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that…
- There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
- The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you…
- Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they…
- I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know…
- I am every age, up to my own.
- Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
- It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said…
- You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry,…
- Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from…
- A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess…
- We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re…
- Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should…
- It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things…
- A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had…
- We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
- The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who…
- Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
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