the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom >>
“’neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you h"it is never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"silence is worse when you know it won't be broken." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'life has to end, love doesn't.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'lost love is still love, Eddie. it takes a different form that's all. you can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. but when those senses weaken, another heightens. memory. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it. you hold it. you dance with it.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"people say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. but love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. what people find then is a certain love." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'no one is born with anger. and when we die, the soul is freed of it. but now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'you get used to something. people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. you're doing the same boring stuff.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"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 coverd 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." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'we move through places ever day that would never have been if not for those who came before us.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"all parents damage their children. it cannot be helped. youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prings of its handlers. some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'that's the thing. sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'sacrifice is part of life. it's supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'that's what heaven is. you get to make sense of your yesterdays.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"young men go to war, osmetimes because they have, sometimes because they want to. always they feel they are supposed to. this comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. that death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'people think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and moutains. but scenery without solace is meaningless. this is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. to have it explained. it is the peace you have been searching for.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"every life has one true-love snapshot." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"all endings are also beginnings. we just don't know it at the time." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
