Mitch Albom Zitate

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„Warum ist uns die Stille peinlich? Welchen Komfort finden wir in all dem Lärm?“

„Ein mit jemand geliebten verbrachter Tag vermag alles zu verändern.“

„Akzeptiere, wer du bist; und schwelge darin.“

„Jedes Ende ist auch ein Neuanfang. Wir wissen es nur nicht immer.“

„Alle Eltern schaden ihren Kindern. Es ist nun mal so. Jugend, wie makelloses Glas, nimmt die Abdrücke derer an die es handhaben. Einige Eltern richten Flecken an, andere Sprünge, und einige wenige zertrümmern Kindheiten vollständig zu winzig kleinen spitzen Splittern, ohne Hoffnung auf Reparatur.“

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad…”

“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need… you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”

“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.”

“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

“Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it.”

“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”

“You are not your past.”

“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”

“Secrets tear you apart.”

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

“I am in love with Hope.”