Mitch Albom Quotes

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

There is beauty in everything.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.