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Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom. It recounts the life
and death of a simple yet dignified old man, Eddie. After dying in a freak accident,
Eddie finds himself in heaven where he encounters five people who have more..
Mitch Albom:Strangers are just family you have yet to come to
know. #Family
Mitch Albom:No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at
corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like
stones beneath a river. #Books - Reading
Mitch Albom: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.
#Depression
Mitch Albom:Sometimes when you sacrifice something
precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to
somebody else. #Sacrifice
Mitch Albom:"There are five people you meet in heaven," the
Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a
reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and
that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on
earth." #Age and Aging
Mitch Albom:In the stories about life and death, the soul often
floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at
highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room
ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who
somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance. #Death
and Dying
Mitch Albom:People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a
place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and
mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.
#Nature
Mitch Albom:Young men go to war. Sometimes because they
are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel
they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories
of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused
with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying
them down. #Courage
Mitch Albom:Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the
inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person
who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we
do, we do to ourselves. #Anger
Mitch Albom:How do people choose their final words? Do they
realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? #Fate
Mitch Albom:"Your voice will come. We all go through the same
thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It
helps you listen." #Smile
Mitch Albom:"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"
#Love
Mitch Albom:All parents damage their children. It cannot be
helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its
handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter
childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
#Home
Mitch Albom:Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's
not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. #Regret
Mitch Albom:And in that line now was a whiskered old man,
with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place
called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of
heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the
next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
#Psychology
Mitch Albom:Before he can devote himself to God or a woman,
a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even
beyond explanation. #Fathers
Mitch Albom:"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often
belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be
found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many
steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
#Courage
Mitch Albom:It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone
watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone,
making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every
man, no matter how old he gets. #Airplane and Aviation
Mitch Albom:"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to
know." #Family
Mitch Albom:"No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only
time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
#Time and Time Management
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