31 Kutipan Novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven Karya Mitch Albom

1. Lima orang yang mungkin orang-orang yang kita kasihi, atau bahkan orang-orang yang tidak kita kenal, namun telah mengubah jalan hidup kita selamanya, tanpa kita sadari.

2. Aku sedih karea aku tidak melakukan apa-apa dalam hidupku. Aku bukan apa-apa. Aku tidak menghasilkan apapun. Aku merasa tidak berguna. Aku merasa aku tidak seharusnya ada di sana.

3. Keadilan tidak mengatur persoalan hidup dan mati. Kalau keadilan yang mengatur, tidak akan ada orang baik mati muda.

4. Pengorbanan adalah bagian dari kehidupan. Harusnya begitu.Bukan sesuatu untuk disesali. Tapi sesuatu untuk didambakan.

5. Menyimpan rasa marah adalah racun. Menggerogoti dari dalam. Kita mengira kebencian merupakan senjara untuk menyerang orang yang menyakiti kita. Tapi kebencian adalah pedang bermata dua. Dan luka yang kita buat dengan pedang itu, ktia lakukan terhadap diri kita sendiri.

6. Cinta yang hilang tetap cinta, Eddie. Hanya bentuknya saja yang berbeda. Kenangan menjadi pasanganmu. Kau memeliharanya. Kau mendekapnya. Kau berdansa dengannya.

7. Setiap kehidupan mempegaruhi kehidupan berikutnya, dan kehidupan berikutnya itu mempengaruhi kehidupan berikutnya lagi, dan bahwa dunia ini penuh dengan kisah-kisah kehidupan, dan semua kisah kehidupan itu adalah satu.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

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

13. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

14. 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...

15. You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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

17. 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.

18. Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from 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.

19. Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

20. Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

21. 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.

22. People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

23. 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.

24. Every life has one true love snapshot.

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

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

27. Life has to end. Love doesn't.

28. 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.

29. No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

30. 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.

31. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.