Mitch Albom

“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?”

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”

“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”

“We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.”

“What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to...”

“Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas nebėra ypatinga. Be netekčių ar aukos mes nesugebame įvertinti to, ką turime.”

“-Dievas riboja mūsų dienų skaičių ne be priežasties. -Kokia to priežastis? -Kad kiekviena diena būtų brangi.”

“... Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.” “ What’s that?” “Hope.”

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it...”

“A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.”

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

“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.”

“Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?”

“A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.”

“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...”

“Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”