Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"Every life has one true love snapshot."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."

"Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

"There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. 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."

"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

"Sacrfice,"the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."