When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.
Mitch Albom
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When you throw rotten tomatoes at a queen bee like Cisco, it splashes over on everyone else.
AL GOLDMAN It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
MITCH ALBOM Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM Loving yourself is easy when everyone else wants to love you. Loving yourself is hard when everyone ...
SUSIE L HILL Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw ou...
C. JOYBELL C. I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'
JUSTIN KURZEL Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somethin...
MITCH ALBOM My friend, ally rotten- I exist, have you forgotten?
CHAICE REGIME You mustn’t blame yourself for the way the boy’s turned out, Vernon. If there’s something rott...
J.K. ROWLING When you discard a rotten apple, do not try to save the stem to grow an apple tree.
TIRSO All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and tho...
ZHUANGZI If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or d...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten
BENNY BELLAMACINA Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
STAR WARS When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does
KIRK DOUGLAS Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ That's when they get the wood when it is just about to go rotten, and it makes that nice gray color.
LYNN FORRES What Mufy means is that he is in possession of rather capacious breasts for a male of the human spec...
FRED BARNETT It was absolutely rotten,
PHIL GARNER I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
GARY BURGHOFF You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we belie...
SHANNON TANNER I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have bee...
KRISTEN HENDERSON For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
NICHOLAS CULPEPER When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th...
ANN RULE When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
JODI PICOULT Rotten wood cannot be carved
CHINESE PROVERBS Spoilt people live rotten lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten good...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I think this prosecutor got stuck with a rotten mackerel. He got stuck with a stinking, rotten macke...
J. TONY SERRA An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has pote...
GARDNER DOZOIS There's small choice in rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rotten Apple spoils his Companion
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A rotten case abides no handling
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's small choice in rotten apples
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly...
MITCH ALBOM All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and tho...
CHUANG TZU ROMEO: I love you.
RIMMEL: Romeo...
ROMEO: I love your glasses, your clumsine...
CAMBRIA HEBERT Find something you love to do in life or else you’ll just find yourself relentlessly scrounging ar...
SAL PALLADINO When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you w...
A. SALEH A mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
NERISSA IRVING This was one of the rotten things that happened.
RON KITTLE It didn't appear to be rotten. We don't know why it failed.
PAUL WIRTH Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even w...
ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE If you love yourself, you become radiant. You become easier to be around.
DR. LYNN CUTTS You have to love yourself, before you can love anyone else.
EMILY O'SHEA Just what she needed. More filth in her soul. Someday, maybe, she would explode from it, someday may...
STACIA KANE Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU It’s people like you, Ron,” Hermione began hotly, “who prop up rotten and unjust systems, just...
J.K. ROWLING You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can love everyone, but you can never hurt anyone else without hurting yourself. You will burn yo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author...
ROMAN PAYNE You could drink whisky straight out the barrel and it would taste rotten, ... Or you could be patien...
DONALD REID When you love yourself more than anyone else ever could, that's dangerous.
FATHOM There is a big difference between
being self-ist and being selfish—
putting yourself fir...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with.
JOSEPH BRUNO Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Something was very rotten in the state of Enron.
CARL LEVIN I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make en...
CHARLES SAATCHI I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten....
JOHN LYDON Love yourself before you love someone else.
LESLIE BECKER-PHELPS It was always about everybody else. Even when she was dying, she was concerned about everyone else.
KATE WIATROWSKI how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you
RUPI KAUR To live in a world that requires you to become someone else, being yourself is your best choice and ...
STEVEN CUOCO Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for your...
HENRY JAMES Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?'
I was still kind of wondering about the little gre...
RICK RIORDAN Have you ever noticed that the Rotten and Tart Apples tend to fall closer to the trees than the swee...
ANJIE HENLEY If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
NATALIA VODIANOVA True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yoursel...
SHANNON L. ALDER To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
JEANETTE WINTERSON hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA. You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone e...
CHRISTINA PERRI Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If your roots are forgotten then your fruits will rotten.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymo...
SANHITA BARUAH Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?
BARBARA DE ANGELIS Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?
SABRINA WARD HARRISON Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE In order to love somebody else, you have to love yourself.
JOSH HOLMAN I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it m...
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MITCH ALBOM You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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MITCH ALBOM Life has to end, love doesn't.
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MITCH ALBOM Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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MITCH ALBOM It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the thin...
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MITCH ALBOM Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirr...
MITCH ALBOM Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
MITCH ALBOM Love wins, love always wins.
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MITCH ALBOM Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
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MITCH ALBOM Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
MITCH ALBOM A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separate...
MITCH ALBOM Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they fe...
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MITCH ALBOM Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for...
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MITCH ALBOM No one gets left behind, remember?
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MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn'...
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MITCH ALBOM There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
MITCH ALBOM I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themsel...
MITCH ALBOM People are only mean when they are threatened.
MITCH ALBOM As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be tw...
MITCH ALBOM Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned thos...
MITCH ALBOM Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself ...
MITCH ALBOM Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do...
MITCH ALBOM Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing...
MITCH ALBOM This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there w...
MITCH ALBOM I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
MITCH ALBOM there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other pers...
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MITCH ALBOM I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Accept who you are; and revel in it.
MITCH ALBOM One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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MITCH ALBOM People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself t...
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MITCH ALBOM I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
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MITCH ALBOM I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time...
MITCH ALBOM ..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he ...
MITCH ALBOM Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from...
MITCH ALBOM Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He...
MITCH ALBOM ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax..
you cannot...
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MITCH ALBOM That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the en...
MITCH ALBOM Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and...
MITCH ALBOM I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"...
MITCH ALBOM Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
MITCH ALBOM Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
MITCH ALBOM Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the d...
MITCH ALBOM I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
MITCH ALBOM Don't get too attached to anything.
MITCH ALBOM Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were n...
MITCH ALBOM When hope is gone, time is punishment.
MITCH ALBOM Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paraly...
MITCH ALBOM With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.
MITCH ALBOM Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
MITCH ALBOM There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
MITCH ALBOM I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment s...
MITCH ALBOM When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
MITCH ALBOM With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
MITCH ALBOM Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
MITCH ALBOM Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
MITCH ALBOM There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
MITCH ALBOM Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
MITCH ALBOM What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
MITCH ALBOM I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
MITCH ALBOM I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
MITCH ALBOM Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
MITCH ALBOM No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
MITCH ALBOM You have to work at creating your own culture.
MITCH ALBOM Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
MITCH ALBOM But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
MITCH ALBOM Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
MITCH ALBOM Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
MITCH ALBOM Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
MITCH ALBOM There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
MITCH ALBOM As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
MITCH ALBOM Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
MITCH ALBOM But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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MITCH ALBOM Something is always happening somewhere.
MITCH ALBOM I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
MITCH ALBOM I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
MITCH ALBOM It is too late."
The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
MITCH ALBOM You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
MITCH ALBOM As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
MITCH ALBOM Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
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