01c. 1958 ADI earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
02c. 1958 ADI was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
03c. 1958 AD.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
04c. 1958 ADYou have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
05c. 1958 ADMorrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet,” Morrie whispered.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
06c. 1958 ADThe secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
07c. 1958 ADSilence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
08c. 1958 ADI [Music] was born in the open air, in the breaks of waves and the whistling of sandstorms, the hoots of owls and the cackles of tui birds. I travel in echoes. I ride the breeze. I was forged in nature, rugged and raw. Only man shapes my edges to make me beautiful. [Chapter 2]Mitch Albom / quote ↗
09c. 1958 ADThere is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?Mitch Albom / quote ↗
10c. 1958 ADOne must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
11c. 1958 ADYou can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
12c. 1958 ADwhen all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
13c. 1958 ADI also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
15c. 1958 ADIt is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
16c. 1958 ADYou have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
17c. 1958 ADTell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
18c. 1958 ADThe problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
19c. 1958 ADI also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.But there's 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 mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
20c. 1958 AD...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
22c. 1958 ADThere are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth."Eddie looked confused."People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless."This is the greatest gift God can give you: To understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
24c. 1958 AD..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
