Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom
Mitchell David "Mitch" Albomis an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays, and films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 May 1958
CityPassaic, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Mitch Albom quotes about
- snapshots
- one-true-love
- bible
- book
- way
- someone-you-love
- watches
- difficult
- happenings
- love-and-marriage
- belief
- importance
- materialistic
- granted
- loving-relationships
- skill
- measuring
- quiet-moments
- healthy
- mind
- moments
- counting
- knows
- first-love
- common-sense
- firsts
- where-you-live
- matter
- defects
- detachment
I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.
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.
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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.
Every life has one true love snapshot.
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.
When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
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?
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
What in life can love not penetrate?
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.
Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
What will you do with the time you have left?