Mitch Albom Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. Tuesdays with Morrie

2. Every life has one true love snapshot. The Five People You Meet in Heaven

3. Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be? Tuesdays with Morrie

4. I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. For One More Day

5. 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. The Time Keeper

6. I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. For One More Day

7. I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. For One More Day

8. I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart. Have a Little Faith: a True Story

9. Kids chase the love that eludes them. For One More Day

10. Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins Tuesdays with Morrie

11. Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. Tuesdays with Morrie

12. Lost love is still love. 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.

13. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

14. Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. The Five People You Meet in Heaven

15. Love wins, love always wins. Tuesdays with Morrie

16. Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose. Tuesdays with Morrie

17. 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. Have a Little Faith: a True Story

18. Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted. For One More Day

19. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. For One More Day

20. 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. For One More Day

21. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. Tuesdays with Morrie

22. Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’. Tuesdays with Morrie

23. The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’. Tuesdays with Morrie

24. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Tuesdays with Morrie

25. There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children. Tuesdays with Morrie

26. This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. Tuesdays with Morrie

27. This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual security’—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Tuesdays with Morrie

28. 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. Tuesdays with Morrie

29. We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? Tuesdays with Morrie

30. when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth. Tuesdays with Morrie