Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

the Lord doesn’t get ideas partway through a life.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

A child is both an anchor and a set of wings.

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.

Everything in this world is

music if you can hear

it.

One of the best things

a child can do for an adult is to draw them down, closer to the ground, for clearer reception to the voices of the earth.

Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” —Dr. John Trainer