The Five People You Meet in Heaven

I like reading inspirational books, here are some of the lines that strikes me upon reading the international best-seller, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, author of other books like Tuesdays with Morrie, For One More Day, Bo, Fab Five, etc.

• 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.


• Strangers - are just family you have yet to come to know.


• No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.


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


• Fairness - does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.


• Did you ever wonder why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?- 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.


• Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.


• SACRIFICE - you made one. I made one. We all make 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. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. A man goes to war...Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious,you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.