Frasi di Mitch Albom

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“Ogni persona ne influenza un'altra, e questa ne influenza un'altra ancora, e il mondo è pieno di storie, che in realtà sono sempre la stessa.”

“Tutte le persone che incontrerai hanno un insegnamento da darti.”

“Tutti i finali sono anche inizi. Semplicemente non lo sappiamo in quel momento.”

“C'è una tribù nell'Artico americano secondo la quale tutti gli esseri sulla Terra possiedono un'anima che è la forma in miniatura del corpo che la contiene: così che un daino ha dentro di sé un piccolo daino, e un uomo a sua volta un piccolo uomo. Quando l'essere grande muore, sopravvive quello piccolo: può trasmigrare in qualcosa che sta nascendo lì vicino, oppure recarsi a un luogo di sosta temporaneo nel cielo, nella pancia di un grande spirito femminile, dove attende finché la luna non potrà rimandarlo sulla terra. A volte, dicono, la luna ha così tanto da fare con le anime nuove del mondo che scompare dal cielo. Ecco perché abbiamo certe notti senza luna. Ma, alla fine, la luna torna sempre, come noi tutti. Questo è ciò che loro credono.”

“Finché riusciremo ad amarci a vicenda da ricordarci il sentimento d'amore che abbiamo provato, potremo morire senza uscire realmente dal mondo. L'amore che si è creato resta qui. I ricordi sono ancora qui. E tu continui a vivere nei cuori di chi hai nutrito, educato o commosso su questo pianeta.”

“Nessuna vita è sprecata […] L'unico tempo che sprechiamo è quello che trascorriamo a pensare di essere soli.”

“La giustizia […] non governa la vita e la morte. Altrimenti nessuna persona buona morirebbe giovane.”

“A volte quando sacrifichi qualcosa di prezioso, non lo perdi. Lo dai a qualcun altro.”

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

“Love wins. Love always wins.”

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”

“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."

He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”

“People are only mean when they are threatened.”

“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

“The secret to happiness… be satisfied and be grateful.”

“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”

“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”

“Going back to something is harder than you think.”

“Sticking with your family is whatit a family.”

“One day can bend your life.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

“"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"”

“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”