The Five People You Meet in Heaven Archive

"People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'lost love is still love, Eddie. it takes a different form that's all. you can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. but when those senses weaken, another heightens. memory. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it. you hold it. you dance with it.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'people think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. but scenery without solace is meaningless. 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.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'you get used to something. people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. you're doing the same boring stuff.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"all endings are also beginnings. we just don't know it at the time." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"'the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. that death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"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." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom