Mitch Albom

HOW DO PEOPLE choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

But scenery without solace is meaningless.

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

How Do PEOPLE choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid

by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely

But really listening to someone—without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return—how often do we get this anymore

either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they’re marrying

loved one is so important. You realize that, especially when you’re in a time like I am, when you’re not doing so well. Friends are great, but friends are not going to be here on a night