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Quotes from The Five People You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom

born 1958 United States

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

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

"Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

"It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

"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."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mitch Albom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.