Finding Chika Quotes

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It's what we do with today that makes an impact.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” —Dr. John Trainer”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“A child is both an anchor and a set of wings. My old way of doing things was gone.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“What you carry is what defines you. It can be the burden of feeding your family, the responsibility of caring for patients, the good that you feel you must do for others, or the sins that you will not release. Whatever it is, we all carry something, every day. And for all your time with us—as you so defiantly stated, Chika—my job was carrying you. My job was—and is—carrying your brothers and sisters in the orphanage. My job, it turns out, after so many years without them, is carrying children. It is the most wonderful weight to bear.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you’re using it to wrap a box. But when you’re clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it’s something else entirely.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Everything in this world is music if you can hear it.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“A child is both an anchor and a set of wings.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else”—”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“We adults can be a wretched lot Chika, yet in every child's face we see the Lord has not given up on us.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Chika”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

You looked. Your eyes flickered with curiosity. You caught fireflies and asked if they had batteries. You unearthed a penny and asked if it was "treasure". And without prompting, you knew discovery should be shared.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“because children, especially sick children, have a toughness unique to their young souls, one that can comfort even the fretting adults around them.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It’s what we do with today that makes an impact.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Your voice was a weather vane, it told us how your wind was blowing.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It’s what we do with today that makes an impact. Chika filled every day. She drank it in. She lived it up. And always, always, she affected someone, most often by making them smile.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have,”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“You took a huge part of us with you, Chika, the best part, but it was yours to take, and I hope it will always be close to you.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Anyone who has sat through that slice of time, when you don't know something awful and then you do, will confirm that it is literally a bend in your life, and what is critical is what you choose next; because you can view a diagnosis many ways—as a curse, a challenge, a resignation, a test from God.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family