Mitch Albom Quotes

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom

Happen, Against, Getting

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Mitch Albom

Mean, Culture, Economy

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
Mitch Albom

Life, Best, Focus

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
Mitch Albom

Peace, Care, Give

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
Mitch Albom

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
Mitch Albom

Live, Here, Everyone

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
Mitch Albom

Kindness, Deep, Pretty

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'
Mitch Albom

Life, Work, Live

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.
Mitch Albom

Life, Yourself, Others

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
Mitch Albom

Life, Work, Family

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom

Two, Die, Matter

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.
Mitch Albom

Few, Seem, Passionate

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
Mitch Albom

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
Mitch Albom

Father, Feelings, Talk

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Mitch Albom

Work, Strong, Enough

You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom

Work, Culture, Creating

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
Mitch Albom

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Mitch Albom

Life, Story, Influence

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.
Mitch Albom

Mind, Keep, Write

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Mitch Albom

Problem, Write, Critics

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.
Mitch Albom

Spiritual, Books, Religious

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
Mitch Albom

Music, Books, Office

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.
Mitch Albom

Two, Books, Takes

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
Mitch Albom

Life, Time, Hell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 23, 1958

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