Mitch Albom Quotes About Heart
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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
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When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.
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Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
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Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
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...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
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He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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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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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
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