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

by Mitch Albom

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.

“Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else”—that

With the healthy, I repeated Morrie’s mantra of pretending each day to have a bird on your shoulder, a bird that you ask, “Is today the day I die?”—and to live each day as if the answer were “Yes.”

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. I learned that from you.

But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It’s what we do with today that makes an impact.