1,065 Quotes by Mitch Albom

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.

I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.