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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixin

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Mitch Albom (14)

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Parents, Children, Damage, unrepairable

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Blessing in disguise

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go, Understanding

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Hurtful, Neglect, Parenting

“People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, universal love, aspects of love, People, Life

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Human Condition, Life, Death, Understanding

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Heartbreak, Lost Love

“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

Tagged: Stories, Life, World

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Alone, Time

“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

Tagged: Sacrifice, Regret

“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

Tagged: Sacrifice, Precious

“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

Tagged: Anger, Hatred

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Beginnings, Endings, Time

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com