“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not ...” — Mitch Albom Quote

“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.”

“What is false about hope?”

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

“Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.”

“I decided I"m going to live-or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”

“Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?”

“Best way apes know to make sure nobody questions their words is to call them divine intervention, rather than human creation. But if you could transcend the primitive instinct of connecting divinity with the supernatural, you would plainly see, human creation is divine creation - human intervention is the most divine it gets. That is why, my creations are divine creation, but that divinity is firmly rooted in my own consciousness - not in some imaginary heaven, but in my own organic and very much mortal human brain.”

“The will of life and death,”

“Bare and glistening blooms do reach,”

“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.”

“Let go of wanting to rule the Stanford Experiment, and counteract the peer-pressure of the Milgram Experiment.”