If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
Mitch Albom
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It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
MITCH ALBOM Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t...
RENATE VULLINGS Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somethin...
MITCH ALBOM Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly...
MITCH ALBOM There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER It depends on how much we want to expand. If you do everything -- which is not my recommendation and...
GEORGE KRAWZOFF It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually ch...
ADITI KHORANA It was nice to see to Mitch do that. Their defensive game plan just didn't work because of what Mitc...
DREW FRANK Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...
MITCH ALBOM She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the w...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Du...
JAMES JOYCE ..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you c...
BRENT WEEKS [Or if getting to heaven were all about] being a good person, ... surely you could join all sorts of...
KIRK CAMERON Do you prefer Mitch, or is Mitchell better?
MORRIE SCHWARTZ I do wish I could come and see you all and I intend to if nothing happens to prevent this Summer com...
BUTCH CASSIDY Andy gets ahead of the pack, it will be, but if he falls between Fanning and Munro then they could s...
KELLY SLATER For Jesus, the question wasn’t, “How do I get into heaven?” but “How do I bring heaven here?
ROB BELL I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, ...
DEYTH BANGER Bitterness and hatred do not reside here. I feel nothing but love for you. And throughout it all, no...
TIFFANY - ANGèLE EATON I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. ...
STIRLING MOSS I held her in my arms last night," he said quietly. "And when I felt her every response, I thought, ...
JOEY W. HILL If you aren't Certain in heaven be certain in life and make it better than heaven could ever be
CHRISTOPHER HAYES Nothing we could do to save anything. We couldn't do too much because once it started coming down it...
GLEN KEO But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...
CASSANDRA CLARE When my dad died, it was like everything felt really shaky, you know? And trying to be the best I co...
SARAH DESSEN you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...
MAUPASSANT Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT If you seek nothing, you'll earn everything; but if you seek everything, you'll earn nothing.
MITEB KHANTASH ALQARNI Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...
RICHARD WRIGHT Is this what’s going to make you happy?’
‘How different everything could have been, if yo...
MARISSA MEYER You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
RAE DAWN CHONG You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him
RAE DAWN CHONG If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last t...
BROOKE DAVIES Nothing could be better. That's how we wanted to end it. So we did. This was a special day.
DANIELLE WEXLER It was a down year for the team last year. But Mitch and Luis should be a good one-two punch this ye...
DANIEL GONZALEZ In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that h...
WILL ARNETT There was nothing we could do about it,
ELAINE MORGAN So how long do I have to pack?
DON DARKES You can do everything towards a certain action but you'll achieve nothing if you don't sketch it on ...
MINA TADROS Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY A lot comes down to how passionate Mitch is to keep it going.
GARY NEWMAN You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. I...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to rea...
DEB CALETTI I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, somet...
KAMI GARCIA It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I pack all my love for you in this quote, hope it reaches to you. :)
SANDEEP PRADHAN There is a price for everything you do in this lifetime,if you do good,good will follow you.
EDWINA A ADJEI It was quite hard to walk through there. You say, 'Wow! How could they do this?' Many things are twi...
WENRAN JIANG It is nothing I could have imagined. It's more than I could have asked for. I was able to earn a sta...
ALEX MCGUIRE Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM We didn't do nothing. How can you punish somebody for doing nothing?
TOMMY ALLAIN When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing...
JOHN KUYPERS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
NATALIE MORALES Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you trea...
KRIS CARR ….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ...
LAURIE MATTHEW If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you...
WILLIAM MORRIS We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it p...
JUPITER HAMMON If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why....
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER If she died in the midst of all these other things, it could cause the pack to crumble. That may be ...
DOUG SMITH How could you do something like this and why?
EMILY LYONS How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you ...
JASON ELLIS Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?'
'Sometimes.'
'So why don't you do so...
LAUREN OLIVER If you have made it this far doing nothing... imagine what you can do if you actually apply yourself...
J-FRANCES Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS If you can learn how to add values to product and services, if you can learn how to work hard, there...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how...
JOHNNY WEIR When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some...
LEWIS BLACK He was both everything I could ever want…
And nothing I could ever have…
RANATA SUZUKI My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with my profession. It ...
AMERICAN CITIZEN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN I think it was the right thing. I know how hard this was for him. He would like to play until he was...
JERRY RICE When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may ha...
MUNIA KHAN Everything was as normal as could be for something like this,
DALE ANDERSON You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If...
CYNTHIA HAND 'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could d...
DRAKE Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.
ROY T. BENNETT Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.
People saw one thing, they swooned over it...
DEAN KOONTZ Everything is possible. nothing is ever impossible. If you think you can't fly what are planes inven...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young...
OSCAR WILDE You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we...
STEPHENIE MEYER That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wanti...
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MITCH ALBOM Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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MITCH ALBOM Every life has one true love snapshot.
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MITCH ALBOM Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...
MITCH ALBOM Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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MITCH ALBOM The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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MITCH ALBOM It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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MITCH ALBOM All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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MITCH ALBOM You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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MITCH ALBOM It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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MITCH ALBOM Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
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MITCH ALBOM Life has to end, love doesn't.
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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 Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they fe...
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MITCH ALBOM I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ...
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MITCH ALBOM No one gets left behind, remember?
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MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
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.
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MITCH ALBOM People are only mean when they are threatened.
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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 ...
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MITCH ALBOM I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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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 Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He...
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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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MITCH ALBOM Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
MITCH ALBOM But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
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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,...
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