Quotes by Mitch Albom

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. Theyre here, too.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on--in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

And a man without memories is just a shell.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Time flies with you

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

I dont know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when its something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

But theres a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mothers story, because hers is where yours begin.

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And thats what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on whats really important anymore.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

Once heaven is done with grandma, wed like her back, thanks.

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

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

some things you endure for a reason

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didnt want to forget him. Maybe I didnt want him to forget me.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.