Mitch Albom Quotes

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

I'm not better than anyone else.