Mitch Albom

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

“Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?”Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbyeand it’s like no time passed at all?”His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.”“With you,” she added.”

“But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when youthought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you hadback.What if you got it back?”

“The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.Or who isn't.”

“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”

“Time flies with you”

“Kadang-kadang, kalau tidak mendapatkan cinta yang kau inginkan, dengan memberi kau pikir kau akan mendapatkannya.”

“A heart weighs more when it splits in two”

“You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened”

“Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?”

“Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.”

“Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For what the love you received. And for what God has given you”

“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

“He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like?"We will hold hands," Morrie said. "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.”

“Only God can write the end of your story.”

“...when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”

“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”

“Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days”

“And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“I was so lonely.” And Father Time said, “You were never alone.”

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength.”

“Dor felt a warm, calming feeling when he said those words—She is my wife—because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.”

“Fairness does not govern life and death.”

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

“And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.”

“This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.”

“Some of them she had seen for four years without exchanging a word. But that was how high school worked; it issued a verdict and you behaved accordingly.”

“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”

“When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”

“We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All throughout the universe, time resumed and nature sang.”

“It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”

“The length of your days does not belong to you.”

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

“The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”

“Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,’ Morrie said. ‘So we kid ourselves about death,’ I (Mitch) said. ‘Yes, but there’s a better approach. To know you’re going to die and be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can be actually be more involved in your life while you’re living. . . Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?... The truth is, Mitch, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live… 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… Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”

“There is a reason God limits our days.''Why?''To make each one precious.”

“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

“It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.”

“It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.”

“Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”

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

“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“You had many more years,” he said.“I didn’t want them.”“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer toyour prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”“What’s that?”“Hope.”

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back.”“That does not make you a fool, either.”“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”“Sometimes never.”

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”