Mitch Albom citáty a výroky
„Každý život má dvě verze; tu, co člověk žije, a tu, co vyprávějí ostatní.“
The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom: Citáty anglicky
Zdroj: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Kontext: 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. 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.
“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
Varianta: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Zdroj: For One More Day
“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”
Zdroj: For One More Day
“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”
Zdroj: For One More Day
“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”
Zdroj: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
Zdroj: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Varianta: We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”
Zdroj: Tuesdays with Morrie
“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
Zdroj: For One More Day
Varianta: I'm in love with hope.
Zdroj: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
