1,065 Quotes by Mitch Albom

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

He told Koppel he knew when it would be time to say good-bye. “For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …” He exhaled. “When that is gone, Morrie is gone.

There would be lots of holding and kissing and talking and laughter and no good-byes left unsaid.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature." He smiled at the plant. "We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.

Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

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.