Mitch Albom Quotes

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?

Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’