All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.
Mitch AlbomParents 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. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
Mitch AlbomTag: growing-up
Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.
Mitch AlbomGod sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
Mitch AlbomIf the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours--well, maybe the problem is you.
Mitch AlbomSticking with your family is what makes it a family.
Mitch AlbomTag: family
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
Mitch AlbomTag: war religion crucifix five-people-you-meet-in-heaven foxhole middle-of-a-big-war orders
No one gets left behind, remember?
Mitch AlbomTag: war captain five-people-you-meet-in-heaven left-behind
Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
Mitch AlbomTag: fiction
That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
Mitch AlbomTag: afterlife understanding
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