01c. 1958 ADYou 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.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
03c. 1958 ADI don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
04c. 1958 ADWhy are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?Mitch Albom / quote ↗
05c. 1958 ADHowever, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
06c. 1958 ADBut 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 begin.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
07c. 1958 ADDo you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's 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 what's really important anymore.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
08c. 1958 ADI think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
09c. 1958 ADThey teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
11c. 1958 ADWhen you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
12c. 1958 ADShe was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
14c. 1958 ADI bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
16c. 1958 ADSometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
17c. 1958 ADYou see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
18c. 1958 ADStudy me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
19c. 1958 ADif you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
20c. 1958 ADSometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
21c. 1958 ADYet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
22c. 1958 ADBehind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
24c. 1958 ADBut then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.Mitch Albom / quote ↗
