Mitch Albom Quotes

Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

I had to decide between doing 'Issaq' and continuing school and I chose 'Issaq.'

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want, which has worked out well for me.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

The pleasure is our choice.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?