30 Times Mitch Albom Helped Us Understand What It Means To Be Human

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late.…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I had the coldest realization that time was running out.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I like myself better when I'm with you.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“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. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself int…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“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 would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“A child embarrassed by his mother,’ she said, ‘is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“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 what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

— Mitch Albom, parade.com

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com