Mitch Albom Giving Quotations

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

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

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."