First Phone Call from Heaven

by Mitch Albom

She said the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”

“Anger, regret, worry. . . . They disappear once you are here. . . . Don’t lose yourself . . . inside yourself . . .”

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It’s why the act of burying things seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

Alexander Bell may have created the phone, but he never had to endure its peculiar effect on relationships.

Desire sets our compass, real life steers our course.