Mitch Albom Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“Everyone knows they’re going to die but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“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. The harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.”

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

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

“People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.”

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

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

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