40 quotes
"When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Love is how we stay alive, even after we are gone."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Behind all your stories is your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Life has to end. Love doesn't."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Life has to end. Love doesn’t."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Love is how often you stay alive, even after you are gone."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"You don't lose the people you love, you carry them with you in your heart."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Love never dies; it lives beyond goodbye."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent."
- Mitch Albom
Awareness
"Angels are the companions who walk beside us, offering comfort and solace during our darkest hours."
- Mitch Albom
Compassion
"Accept who you are; and revel in it."
- Mitch Albom
Self-awareness
""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
Personal Growth
"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."
- Mitch Albom
Personal Growth
"In order to move on you must understand why you felt how you did and why you no longer need to feel it."
- Mitch Albom
Personal Growth
"A sibling is not just family, but a partner in the journey of life."
- Mitch Albom
Relationships
"Learn this from me. 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."
- Mitch Albom
Adversity
""When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.""
- Mitch Albom
Adversity
"Accept who you are, and revel in it."
- Mitch Albom
Self-esteem
"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."
- Mitch Albom
Faith
"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside."
- Mitch Albom
Healing
""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
Aspirations
"One day spent with someone you love can change everything."
- Mitch Albom
Change
"We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have."
- Mitch Albom
Reflection
"In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word 'divorce' came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant 'divide.' In truth, it comes from 'divertere,' which means 'to divert.' I believe that. All divorce does is divert you."
- Mitch Albom
Reflection
"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."
- Mitch Albom
Reflection
"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
- Mitch Albom
Family
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work."
- Mitch Albom
Family
"I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory."
- Mitch Albom
Family
"Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time."
- Mitch Albom
New Beginnings
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
- Mitch Albom
Gratitude
"I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life."
- Mitch Albom
Self-care
"Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt."
- Mitch Albom
Empathy
"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
Philosophy
"It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made."
- Mitch Albom
Philosophy