If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

Love each other or die.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

You have to work at creating your own culture.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.More Mitch Albom [08/17/2010 12:08:00]

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.More Mitch Albom [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.More Mitch Albom [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'More Mitch Albom [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A human textbook. 'Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.'More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a little grief that he was going to die.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theaters, they see the new Hard Rock Cafe, the Borders bookstore, the bars and restaurants, the loft conversions. You can't drive around and not see what's happening down here.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.More Mitch Albom [03/29/2018 05:03:36]