Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.
Mitch Albom
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MITCH ALBOM Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?"
-Morrie
MITCH ALBOM I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
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GARY F EVANS... All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.
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CHRIS DODD I trust that age with not wither, nor custom stale my infinite variety.
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.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one,
Through all ...
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GARY F EVANS... To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
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GARY F EVANS... I tilted my head up and asked, “What would you do if I kissed you right now?”
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MITCH ALBOM Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
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DENIS O'HARE My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. O...
JUSTINA CHEN And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
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BIBLE Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
THOMAS MORIARTY Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours."
I opened my eyes, shifting to look int...
RICHELLE MEAD Never; he will not:
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JACKSON PEARCE Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up wit...
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STEPHEN R. COVEY I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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ICHIRO OZAWA I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
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I arched a brow.
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LAUREN DESTEFANO Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.
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LAUREN DESTEFANO I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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C.S. LEWIS They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.
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God, ...
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JAMES PENDLETON He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He w...
ERIK ERIKSON Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather tha...
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BILL LYON He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
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SIERRA D. WATERS It's so hard to express yourself.'
I understand this.'
I want to express myself.'
Th...
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[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I a...
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JAMES KAVANAUGH Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!
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ANNE LAMOTT Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there...
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I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
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And he says, ...
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MITCH ALBOM I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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MITCH ALBOM Every life has one true love snapshot.
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MITCH ALBOM Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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MITCH ALBOM It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the thin...
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MITCH ALBOM Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirr...
MITCH ALBOM Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
MITCH ALBOM Love wins, love always wins.
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MITCH ALBOM Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
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MITCH ALBOM No one gets left behind, remember?
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MITCH ALBOM Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn'...
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MITCH ALBOM There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
MITCH ALBOM I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themsel...
MITCH ALBOM People are only mean when they are threatened.
MITCH ALBOM As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be tw...
MITCH ALBOM Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned thos...
MITCH ALBOM Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself ...
MITCH ALBOM Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do...
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MITCH ALBOM I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
MITCH ALBOM there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other pers...
MITCH ALBOM Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teac...
MITCH ALBOM I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Accept who you are; and revel in it.
MITCH ALBOM One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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MITCH ALBOM I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
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MITCH ALBOM I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time...
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MITCH ALBOM Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from...
MITCH ALBOM ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax..
you cannot...
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MITCH ALBOM That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the en...
MITCH ALBOM Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and...
MITCH ALBOM I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"...
MITCH ALBOM Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
MITCH ALBOM Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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MITCH ALBOM I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
MITCH ALBOM Don't get too attached to anything.
MITCH ALBOM Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were n...
MITCH ALBOM When hope is gone, time is punishment.
MITCH ALBOM Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paraly...
MITCH ALBOM With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.
MITCH ALBOM Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
MITCH ALBOM There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
MITCH ALBOM I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment s...
MITCH ALBOM When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
MITCH ALBOM With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
MITCH ALBOM Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
MITCH ALBOM Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
MITCH ALBOM There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
MITCH ALBOM Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
MITCH ALBOM What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
MITCH ALBOM I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
MITCH ALBOM I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
MITCH ALBOM Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
MITCH ALBOM No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
MITCH ALBOM You have to work at creating your own culture.
MITCH ALBOM Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
MITCH ALBOM But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
MITCH ALBOM Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
MITCH ALBOM Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
MITCH ALBOM Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
MITCH ALBOM There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
MITCH ALBOM As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
MITCH ALBOM Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
MITCH ALBOM But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
MITCH ALBOM Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was goi...
MITCH ALBOM A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,...
MITCH ALBOM You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Something is always happening somewhere.
MITCH ALBOM I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
MITCH ALBOM I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
MITCH ALBOM It is too late."
The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
MITCH ALBOM You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
MITCH ALBOM As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
MITCH ALBOM Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
MITCH ALBOM If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...
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