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Mitch Albom Quotes
Mitch Albom Quotes
Mitch Albom
American
Writer
Born:
May 23
,
1958
Believe
Books
Life
People
Work
You
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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.
Mitch Albom
Life
You
Yourself
Community
Others
Way
Something
Gives
Purpose
Devote
Around
Get
Loving
Meaning
Creating
Your
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom
You
Getting Older
Unhappy
Older
Battling
Because
Always
Getting
Going
Anyhow
Happen
Against
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.
Mitch Albom
Life
Work
Day
Family
You
Community
Believe
Appreciating
Classic
Seeing
More
Count
Part
Put
Emphasis
New
Reach
Joys
How
End
Friends
Being
After
Little
Mean
Average
Workaholic
Really
Your
Used
Include
Things
Career
I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
Mitch Albom
You
Live
Believe
Everyone
Minds
Earth
Inside
Touched
Were
Hearts
While
Here
I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
Mitch Albom
Life
Time
Hell
Those
Visited
Spirits
About
Know
Affected
Heaven
Us
Who
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
Mitch Albom
Life
You
Alive
Prospect
Dying
Really
Your
Fully
Start
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom
Matter
Born
Were
Die
Going
Common
Who
Things
Two
You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Mitch Albom
Work
Buy
You
Culture
Strong
Be Strong
Enough
Say
If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
Mitch Albom
God
You
Believe
Corn
Could
Like
Know
Box
Shelf
Go
Off
Fit
Get
Just
Really
File
Need
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?
Mitch Albom
Song
Dark
Everybody
Books
Favorite
Favorite Movie
Bad
Some
Nobody
Movie
Story
Dysfunctional
Sentimental
Sudden
Why
Slasher
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Mitch Albom
Problem
Critics
Write
Readers
Sentimentality
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.
Mitch Albom
Me
People
Better
Somebody
Cynical
Worse
See
How
Real
Hand
End
Die
Front
Wanna
Hold
In The End
Watched
My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
Mitch Albom
Emotions
Father
Feelings
Own
About
My Own
Talk
Lot
I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
Mitch Albom
Death
Face
Lying
Laugh
Would
Said
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
Mitch Albom
Me
Writing
Tell
Memoir
Had
Very
Incapable
Publisher
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.
Mitch Albom
People
Books
Possibly
Exception
Make
Read
Because
Normally
Short
Who
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'
Mitch Albom
Life
Work
Day
You
Live
Think
Late
Out
Mortality
Left
Forever
Going
Little
Then
Means
Your
Things
Last
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.
Mitch Albom
Music
Books
Window
Above
More
Wrote
Years
Office
Graduated
Floor
Basement
Recently
I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.
Mitch Albom
Few
Appreciative
Seem
Only
Casual
Readers
Passionate
Very
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
Mitch Albom
Life
Best
Light
Focus
Believe
Put
Mortality
Sharp
Up
Very
Biggest
Against
Themes
Held
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