Have A Little Faith: The inspiring book about the strength of the human spirit and the power of connection

by Mitch Albom

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”

Much of what we called “depression” was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures that we weren’t willing to work for.

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When Sorrow walked with me. ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON The

“Maybe all you get are chances to do good, and what little bad you do ain’t much bad at all. But because God has put you in the position where you can always do good, when you do something bad—it’s like you let God down. “And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God’s happy.”

“Nothing haunts like the things we don’t say.”

“No.” He shook his head. “You can’t work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, ‘Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it don’t even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go . . .’”

you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.