Mitch Albom

“He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm”

“He ran down the heart of the old midway, where the weight guessers, fortune-tellers, and dancing gypsies had once worked. He lowered his chin and held his arms out like a glider, and every few steps he would jump, the way children do, hoping running will turn to flying. It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenaance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

“But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair—signs of life, not death—his body is lean, his skin unwrinkled, immune to the very thing he lords over.”

“Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind,so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible.”

“And when gods touched something, the normal became the supernatural, the simple became the wondrous.”

“A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time.There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day.But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.”

“The hands of a clock will find their way home.”

“As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that hold it -so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into something being born nearby, or it can go to a temporary resting place in the sky, in the belly of a great feminine spirit, where it waits until the moon can send it back to earth.Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.That is what they believe.”

“She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-delusion, and the truth enveloped her like a cocoon, and all she said was "I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.”

“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.”

“One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.”

“Grace.”

“Stay with me.""Forever.”

“I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.”

“No love is worth that trouble.”

“I don't want to fight," she whispered. "Just come home.”

“Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home.”

“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”

“Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when he wasn't sure where his next breath would come from. These horrifying times, he said, and his first emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that crosses your brain - then he was able to say, "Okay,. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away.”

“and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

“In this moment, it is not wise to judge with your eyes.”

“The slightest human contact was immediate joy.”

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.”

“Don't assume that it's too late to get involved”

“How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?”

“Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.”

“In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.”

“Time is not something you give back”

“What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.”

“The End is coming. What will you do with the time you have left?”

“But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.”

“And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out”

“Not aging is not the same as living”

“The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.”

“We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.”

“What will you do with the time you have left?”

“You were never alone.”

“Don't get too attached to anything.”

“Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.”

“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.”

“You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.”

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

“Her death was as insignificant as her life.”

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.”

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

“ما مردمان روزهاي سه شنبه هستيم”

“All who are born are always dying.”

“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”

“And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence -- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time.”