Life drags you down but you always have a choice to go back up. These 30 Mitch Albom quotes can inspire you to fight for the future you want, just like the author did.
Author Mitch Albom was born on May 23, 1958. Interested in journalism, he took a job with the Queens Tribune. He later got into sports writing and landed a part-time job with SPORT magazine. After finishing college, he pursued a career in sports writing and freelanced in such publications as Sports Illustrated.
In the years that followed, he covered Olympic events in Europe where he’d pay for his own travels and sell his articles afterward. In the 1980s, he worked his way up getting hired as a feature writer and getting promoted as a columnist. Ultimately, he became a lead sports columnist for Detroit Free Press. During this time, Albom became a popular sportswriter and won several awards in the field.
In 1997, his breakthrough book Tuesdays with Morrie was published. One of the top-selling memoirs of all time, Tuesdays with Morrie has sold over 14 million copies. His follow-up work was the fiction book The Five People You Meet in Heaven published in 2003. Again, it was a huge success and was adapted into a TV movie for ABC.
Albom has since authored For One More Day (2006), Have a Little Faith (2009), The Time Keeper (2012), The First Phone Call from Heaven (2013), The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (2015), and The Next Person You Meet in Heaven (2018).
Here are 30 Mitch Albom quotes to remind you that life is only grand if you make it to be.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. – Mitch Albom
Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match…Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins. – Mitch Albom
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. – Mitch Albom
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. – Mitch Albom
All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – Mitch Albom
When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. – Mitch Albom
Holding anger is a poison…It eats you from inside…We think that by hating someone we hurt them…But hatred is a curved blade…and the harm we do to others…we also do to ourselves. – Mitch Albom
Accept who you are; and revel in it. – Mitch Albom
Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent. – Mitch Albom
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. – Mitch Albom
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. – Mitch Albom
I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. – Mitch Albom
Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. – Mitch Albom
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. – Mitch Albom
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have. – Mitch Albom
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. – Mitch Albom
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. – Mitch Albom
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. – Mitch Albom
There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. – Mitch Albom
The secret to happiness..be satisfied and be grateful. – Mitch Albom
Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long. – Mitch Albom
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. – Mitch Albom
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. – Mitch Albom
When you are measuring life, you are not living it. – Mitch Albom
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. – Mitch Albom
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need…you need food. You want a chocolate sundae. – Mitch Albom
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say. – Mitch Albom
Without love, we all like birds with broken wings. – Mitch Albom
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. – Mitch Albom
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