Mitch Albom - Creating Space to Make a Difference
20:23 min
CLEAR ALL
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
We read to know we are not alone.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.