“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays”
More from Mitch Albom on Life
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
“None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.”
“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”
“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”
“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”