Mitch Albom

HOW DO PEOPLE choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

But scenery without solace is meaningless.

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

How Do PEOPLE choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Offering others what you have to give

Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness

Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back