“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
More from Mitch Albom on Life
“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”
“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
“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.”
“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”
“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
“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.”
“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
“It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”