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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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.
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You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
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.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
There is no gain without struggle.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.