Book of Quotes

For One More Day

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

- “When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” 

- “Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.” 

- “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.” 

- “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” 

- “One day spent with someone you love can change everything.” 

- “I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.” 

- “There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. ” 

- “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

- “Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”

- “Going back to something is harder than you think.” 

- “One day can bend your life.” 

- “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” 

- “You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.” 

- “It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.” 

- “She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” 

- “I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart. ” 

- “Kids chase the love that eludes them.” 

- “You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.” 

- “You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.” 

- “It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.” 

- “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” 

- “Secrets tear you apart.” 

- “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.” 

- “When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.”