1. Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom. It recounts the life and death of a simple yet dignified old man, Eddie. After dying in a freak accident, Eddie finds himself in heaven where he encounters five people who have more..

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Mitch Albom:Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. #Family

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Mitch Albom:No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. #Books - Reading

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Mitch Albom:Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives. #Depression

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Mitch Albom:Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else. #Sacrifice

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Mitch Albom:"There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "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." #Age and Aging

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Mitch Albom:In the stories about life and death, the soul often floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world. Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance. #Death and Dying

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Mitch Albom: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. #Nature

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Mitch Albom:Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down. #Courage

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Mitch Albom:Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. #Anger

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Mitch Albom:How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? #Fate

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Mitch Albom:"Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen." #Smile

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Mitch Albom:"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't" #Love

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Mitch Albom: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. #Home

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Mitch Albom:Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. #Regret

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Mitch Albom:And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. #Psychology

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Mitch Albom:Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation. #Fathers

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Mitch Albom:"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first." #Courage

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Mitch Albom:It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets. #Airplane and Aviation

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Mitch Albom:"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know." #Family

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Mitch Albom:"No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." #Time and Time Management

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