There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.


Mitch Albom

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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
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Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
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What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
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I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
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I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
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Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
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But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was goi...
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A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,...
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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
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I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
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It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
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Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
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I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
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