The Next Person You Meet in Heaven Quotes

“Because we embrace our scars more than our healing. [...] We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we see the truth."

"What's the truth?" Annie asked.

"That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“No act done for someone else is ever wasted.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Love is not revenge. It can't be thrown like a rock. And you can't create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Did you know,” the old woman said now, standing beside the grown-up Annie, “that a dog will go to a crying human before a smiling one? Dogs get sad when people around them get sad. They’re created that way. It’s called empathy. “Humans have it, too. But it gets blocked by other things—ego, self-pity, thinking your own pain must be tended to first. Dogs don’t have those issues.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? [...] People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“You're not getting it," Eddie gently replied. "I needed to save you. It let me make up for the life I took. That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth?" Cleo asked. "People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame."
She looked to the sky, now a deep shade of purple. "We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. it is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth."
"What's the truth?" Annie asked.
"That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“You might say that is “too young” to die. But what is too young for a life?”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“But all endings are also beginnings.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“In the water’s reflection she saw only loving scenes from her childhood, countless memories, her mother kissing her good night, unwrapping a new toy, plopping whipped cream onto pancakes, putting Annie on her first bicycle, stitching a ripped dress, sharing a tube of lipstick, pushing a button to Annie’s favorite radio station. It was as if someone unlocked a vault and all these fond recollections could be examined at once.
Why didn't I feel this before? she whispered. Because we embrace are scars more than our healing, Lorraine said. We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“You only have peace when you make it with yourself.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“She was broken open.
But broken open is still open.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven