Quotes by Mitch Albom

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Love each other or die.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

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.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

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 harms we do, we do to ourselves.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'