49 Mitch Albom Quotes (TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE)

Top 12 Most Famous Mitch Albom Quotes to Inspire You

“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
Mitch Albom

Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose. — Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be **loved**. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. — Sticking with your **family** is what makes it a **family**.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. — The **truth** is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. — All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the **time**.

“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.”
Mitch Albom

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own. — **Love** is different. **Love** is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.

I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make - but it carries a certain taste of memory. — I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – but it carries a certain taste of **memory**.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought. — All that happens when your **dreams** come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn’t what you thought.

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”
Mitch Albom

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“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.”
Mitch Albom

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for. — Much of what we called “depression” was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren’t willing to work for.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you… — You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn’t help you…

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

And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

“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

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. — **Love** is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. — Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

“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

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

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' — We think we don’t deserve **love**, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a **wise** man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘**Love** is the only rational act.’

One day spent with someone you love can change everything. — One day spent with someone you **love** can **change** everything.

When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love. — When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you **love**.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. — Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
Mitch Albom

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. — The only **time** we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. — It’s such a shame to waste **time**. We always think we have so much of it.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long. — Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.

There are no random acts... We are all connected... You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind... — There are no random acts… We are all connected… You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match…Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”
Mitch Albom

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. — We need to **forgive** ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next… It is still unwritten.

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.” — 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.”

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. 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.”
Mitch Albom

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

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

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

“If you hold back on the emotions–if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them–you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
Mitch Albom

Mitch Albom Short Biography

Born 23 May 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States, Mitchell David Albom is an American author, journalist, and musician.

Albom graduated from Brandeis University in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Afterwards he followed his passion for music and worked as a performer in Europe and America.

After some time, he moved to New York and became a part-time journalist for the Queens Tribune and went on to earn a Master’s degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 1983 he was hired full time for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel and became a feature writer where his column grew in popularity.

After his time as a columnist, he moved on to writing books. In 1995 he re-kindled a relationship with Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor, who was dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease.

These encounters with his former college professor inspired his award-wining book Tuesdays With Morrie, which helped pay for Schwartz’s medical bills.

Albom also achieved success as a playwright, turning four of his books into Broadway plays.

In 2006 Albom founded the umbrella organization called SAY Detroit, a charity that aides Detroit’s neediest.

Further Reading:

The Five Most Inspiring Mitch Albom Books – Hachette Book Group
The Moment That Changed Mitch Albom’s Life – Next Avenue
Every Day with Morrie: Mitch Albom on Charity and Writing – Spare Change News

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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson — **Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson**

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