Mitch Albom
It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power---in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone.Collection: Real
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.Collection: Important
I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.Collection: Sports
In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.Collection: Opportunity
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?Collection: Quiet Moments
I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.Collection: Done
The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.Collection: Pride
When you're in bed, you're deadCollection: Bed
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.Collection: Wish
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.Collection: Running
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.Collection: People
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.Collection: Song
My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.Collection: Morning
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.Collection: Writing
I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.Collection: Hate
She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.Collection: Inspiring Love
Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Sad
...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.Collection: Heart
You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.Collection: Losing A Loved One
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.Collection: Death
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.Collection: Faith
When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.Collection: Baby
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.Collection: Happiness
there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie SchwartzCollection: Love And Marriage
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.Collection: Detachment
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.Collection: Moving On
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.Collection: Love
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.Collection: Stories
the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.Collection: People
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.Collection: Life
Everyone is in such a hurry. 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. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.Collection: Running
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.Collection: Thinking
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never comeCollection: Beautiful
Without love we all like birds with broken wings.Collection: Wings
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.Collection: Materialistic
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.Collection: Children
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.Collection: Bible
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.Collection: Time
People are only mean when they are threatened.Collection: Mean
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.Collection: Moving
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Stories
For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.Collection: Real
For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I’ve never really dealt with religious things.Collection: Book
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and – ta da! – a window.Collection: Book
Got an hour or two? That’s all it takes for one of my books.Collection: Book
Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?Collection: Book