Mitch Albom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by Mitch Albom
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“when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Dignity Quotes
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Generosity Quotes
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.”
Hatred Quotes
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Meaning Quotes
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Passion Quotes
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Purpose Quotes
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A human textbook. 'Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.'”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a little grief that he was going to die.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theaters, they see the new Hard Rock Cafe, the Borders bookstore, the bars and restaurants, the loft conversions. You can't drive around and not see what's happening down here.”
Miscellaneous Quotes