Below are the best quotes we could find featuring mitch albom about storytelling.
CLEAR ALL
‘The story of my recent life.’ I like that phrase. It makes more sense than ‘the story of my life’, because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age.
It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
There are two stories for every life; the one you live and the one others tell.
Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.
Photo Credit: Stephen Lovekin / Staff / WireImage / Getty Images