More Quotes by Mitch Albom
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
...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. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
