Mitch Albom

Where is my worry?

Where is my pain?

People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."

When your colleague falls ill and you do not.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.