Below are the best quotes we could find featuring mitch albom about grief.
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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.
Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it...You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief...
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Fairness, he said, ‘does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.’
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it.
If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
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