Being unheard is the first floor of giving up, and giving up is the first floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

— Mitch Albom

Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

— Mitch Albom

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

— Mitch Albom

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

— Mitch Albom

... But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

— Mitch Albom

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

— Mitch Albom

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?' Because,' Morris continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.' And facing death changes all that?' Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff, and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.' He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.

— Mitch Albom

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the surrounding universe, we take these things for granted.

— Mitch Albom

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.

— Mitch Albom

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

— Mitch Albom