"We are too involved in materialistic things, and……" — Mitch Albom
"We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."
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Mitch Albom
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421 Quotes by Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom has 421 quotes on this site.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on…
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp…
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the…
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach…
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of…
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my…
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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for…
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took…
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else…
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you…
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The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and…
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