- There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
- One day can bend your life.
- When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
- Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in.
- If my family was a democracy, my father's vote counted twice.
- You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
- Trees spend all day looking up at God.
- Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
- A child embarrassed by his mother is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.
- Why should we pay for bad food?
- It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.
- Going back to something is harder than you think.
- You do what you gotta do to hold your family together.
- Three things you have to love about your marriage: each other, your children, your marriage.
- The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
- When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
- It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
- Belief, hard work, love -- you have those things, you can do anything.
- When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
- Secrets will tear you apart.
- You can find something truly important in an ordinary moment.
- You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
Notes & Quotes: For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The following are my favorite quotes from Mitch Albom's book, For One More Day. If you enjoy these quotes, consider picking up a copy for yourself!
