When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: inspirational loneliness
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: happiness faith satisfaction dissatisfaction mitch-albom
It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power---in faith and in marriage."
And if you don't commit? I asked.
"Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side."
What's on the other side?
"Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone.
Stichwörter: happiness god religion marriage commitment mitch-albom
He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.
Mitch AlbomHe did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
Mitch AlbomBut you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
Mitch AlbomA heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
Mitch AlbomDor came from a time before the written word, a time
when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools of
this era—phones, computers—enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they
accomplished, they were never at peace. They constantly checked their devices to see what time it was—
the very thing Dor had tried to determine once with a stick, a stone, and a shadow.
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
Mitch AlbomBut hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
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