Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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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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Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

—Mitch Albom in The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

—Mitch Albom in Have a Little Faith

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Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

—Margaret Thatcher

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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

In the Koran, Allah asks, "The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" It's a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms?… If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?

—Annie Dillard

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

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