Mitch Albom Quotes

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

My advice to people with any disease is to live above it.

When you go to the darkest place, all reason and logic deserts you and you are very dependent on having good people around you.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

It's really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through whatever they're going through. Music is the only thing that's able to help sooth my soul in that way, and my goal is to always put things out there that that do the same thing for other people.

Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.