“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“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, quote from For One More Day
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. ”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“One day can bend your life.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“She had a bottomless well of love for me.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“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, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
“I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from For One More Day
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“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Virgin's Lover
“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from The Ten-Year Nap
“If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“The great cause of inequality in the distribution of wealth is inequality in the ownership of land. The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the intellectual and moral condition of a people.”
― Henry George, quote from Progress and Poverty
“. Nature's so terribly good. Don't you think so, Mr. Stanhope?"
Stanhope was standing by, silent, while Mrs. Parry communed with her soul and with one or two of her neighbours on the possibilities of dressing the Chorus. He turned his head and answered, "That Nature is terribly good? Yes, Miss Fox. You do mean 'terribly'?"
"Why, certainly," Miss Fox said. "Terribly--dreadfully--very."
"Yes," Stanhope said again. "Very. Only--you must forgive me; it comes from doing so much writing, but when I say 'terribly' I think I mean 'full of terror'. A dreadful goodness."
"I don't see how goodness can be dreadful," Miss Fox said, with a shade of resentment in her voice. "If things are good they're not terrifying, are they?"
"It was you who said 'terribly'," Stanhope reminded her with a smile, "I only agreed."
"And if things are terrifying," Pauline put in, her eyes half closed and her head turned away as if she asked a casual question rather of the world than of him, "can they be good?"
He looked down on her. "Yes, surely," he said, with more energy. "Are our tremors to measure the Omnipotence?”
― Charles Williams, quote from Descent into Hell
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