Mitch Albom is a bestselling author, journalist, musician, dramatist, and broadcaster. His inspirational books about life and death, including Tuesdays with Morrie, have sold over forty million copies worldwide.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Anger is inevitable when our lives consist of giving in and going along; when we assume responsibility for other people’s feelings and reactions; when we relinquish our primary responsibility to proceed with our own growth and ensure the quality of our own lives; when we behave as if having a...
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Feeling angry signals a problem, venting anger does not solve it. Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.
Letting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn’t serve us.
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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
There is no gain without struggle.