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Mitch Albom
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An
important note: most of the quotations that are attributed
to Mitch Albom
from his book Tuesdays with Morrie are actually from Morrie
Schwartz; they're
attributed to Albom because they're in his book. On this
page we've tried to
put only material that comes from Albom himself; remember that most of
what you read as Albom's work in TwM aren't actually his
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Ruby stepped
toward him. "Edward," she said softly. It was the first time she had called him by name. "Learn this from me.
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We
think that
hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to
ourselves.
"Forgive, Edward. Forgive.
Do you remember the lightness
you felt when you first arrived in heaven?"
Eddie did. Where is my pain?
"That's because no one is born with
anger. And when we die,
the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must
understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to
feel it."
She touched his hand.
"You need to forgive your father."
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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.
I used to think I knew
everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done,"
and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff
at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better
nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew
everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So
many people are in pain--no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they
yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up,
which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets
to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort,
love, and a peaceful heart.
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“No life is
a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we
waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't
know it at the time. |
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When
someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.
They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. |
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Sometimes
when you sacrifice something precious, you're not
really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. |
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The
culture we have does not make people feel good about
themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you
have
to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work,
don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do
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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.
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Mitch
Albom is the author of eight books, including the bestseller The Five People You Meet in
Heaven, and the phenomenal
bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie. Oprah Winfrey
produced a major television movie for ABC based on Tuesdays
With Morrie that aired in December, 1999, and starred Jack
Lemmon and Hank Azaria. A phenomenon in its own right, the
movie was not only the most-watched on any network for that year,
it also earned four Emmy Awards in 2000, including those for
"Best Actor" (Lemmon) and Best Supporting
Actor (Azaria). With more than five million copies now
in print, "Tuesdays With Morrie" is also published in 34
countries, in 30 languages, and was a bestseller in Japan,
Australia, Brazil, and England.
Albom's "Tuesdays With Morrie" story has been featured
in many national
publications, including People Magazine, Life Magazine, TV
Guide, and
Redbook. Albom has also been featured on several
national television
programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC's Today Show,
the CBS Early Show, Larry King Live, the Tom Snyder Show, and
the Rosie
O'Donnell Show.
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Other
people: Alan Watts - Albert
Einstein - Albert Schweitzer
- Andy Rooney - Anne
Frank - Anne Morrow
Lindbergh
Anne Wilson Schaef - Annie Dillard
- Anthony Robbins - Ari
Kiev - Artur Rubenstein - Barbara
Johnson - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Hoff
- Bernie Siegel - Bertrand
Russell - Betty Eadie - Booker
T. Washington
Charlotte Davis Kasl - Cheryl
Richardson - Cristina Feldman
- C.S. Lewis - the
Dalai Lama - Dale Carnegie - Deepak
Chopra
Don Miguel Ruiz - Earl
Nightingale - Elaine St. James
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Elisabeth
Kuebler-Ross - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emmet Fox - Frederick Buechner
- George Bernard Shaw - George
Santayana - George
Washington Carver - Gerald
Jampolsky
Harold Kushner - Harry
Emerson Fosdick - Helen Keller -
Henry David Thoreau - Henry
James - Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Henry
Ward Beecher - Hugh Prather - Immanuel
Kant - Iyanla Vanzant - Jack
Canfield
James Allen - Jennifer
James - Jim Rohn - Joan
Borysenko - Joan Chittister -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Izzo -
John
Ruskin - Joni Eareckson Tada - Joseph M.
Marshall III - Julia Cameron - Kent
Nerburn - Khalil Gibran -
Leo
Buscaglia - Leonard Jacobson - Leslie Levine
- Lucinda Bassett - Lydia
Maria Child - Lynn Grabhorn - Marcus
Aurelius
Marianne Williamson - Martin
Luther King, Jr. - Maya Angelou
- Melody Beattie - Michael
Goddart - Mitch Albom
Mohandas Gandhi - Morrie Schwartz
- Mother Teresa - M.
Scott Peck - Nathaniel Branden
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Norman
Cousins
Norman Vincent Peale - Og Mandino
- Oprah Winfrey - Oriah
- Orison Swett Marden - Pau
Casals - Peace Pilgrim - Phillips
Brooks
Rabindranath Tagore - Rachel Carson
- Rachel Naomi Remen - Rainer
Maria Rilke - Ralph Waldo Trine
- Richard Bach
Richard Carlson - Robert Frost -
Robert Fulghum - Robert
Louis Stevenson - Russell Baker
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Shakti Gawain - Soren
Kierkegaard - Stephen Covey - Stephen
C. Paul - Sue Patton Thoele
- Susan L. Taylor
Sylvia Boorstein - Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thomas Carlyle - Thomas
Kinkade - Thomas Merton - Tom
Walsh - Victor Cherbuliez
Wayne Dyer - Wilferd A. Peterson
- Willa Cather - William
James - William Wordsworth
- Zig Ziglar |
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