Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

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About Mitch Albom

Portrait of Mitch Albom

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, sports journalist, talk show host, and philanthropist. As of 2021, his books are reported to have sold 40 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition as a sports journalist early on in his writing career, Albom turned to writing...

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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

—Mitch Albom in The Time Keeper

Fates are connected in ways we don't understand.

—Mitch Albom in The Time Keeper

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

—Mitch Albom in The Time Keeper

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

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You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.

—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman

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You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

—Jessamyn West

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You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

—Veronica Roth in The Transfer

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Sometimes the decisions that seem the most illogical at the time, later on turn out to be the best decisions of our lives.

—Madeleine Beckett in Color of Loneliness

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