Mitch Albom · 249 pages
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“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience.
. . . twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little. It's part of being close to someone.
But the joy you get from that same closeness--when you watch your children, when you wake up and smile at each other--that . . . is a blessing. People forget that.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“So, have we solved the secret of happiness?
"I believe so," he said
Are you going to tell me?
"Yes.Ready?"
Ready.
"Be satisfied."
That's it?
"Be greatful."
That's it?
"For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you."
That's it?
He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply.
"That's it.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“I am in love with Hope.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner.
"Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing .
her mother never looked up.
"what"? she said ,tending to the pots.
"guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings.
"what?" the mother said , tending to the plates.
"Mom, you're not listening"
"sweetie,yes I am"
"Mom" the child said "you're not listening with your EYES”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can’t explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.
“And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?”
I shrugged.
“You see?”
He leaned back. He smiled.
“When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be a bliss. That´s TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. Like Sarah says, twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren´t so great, you don´t junk the whole thing. It´s okay to have an argument. It´s okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little. It´s part of being close to someone. But the joy you get from the sam closeness - when you watch your children, whan you wake up and smile at each other - that, as our tradition teaches us, is a blessing. People forget that. Why do they forget it? Because the word "commitment" has lost its meaning. I´m old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A committed person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don´t want to tie yourself down”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Mitch Albom
Born place: in Passaic, New Jersey, The United States
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