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“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Everything good is always somewhere else.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, an army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a galley inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You’re never in love with anyone the way you are when you’re eighteen,”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie’s”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“some things you endure for a reason”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“intentions. That’s important in music, too. Critically important. What you’re thinking about can be what you become.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Why humans kill each other is beyond my comprehension, but I can testify that you have been doing it since your inception. Only the weapons change.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“The greatest thing, you’ll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Lágrima”—“Teardrop”—the”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“The less humans can solve a mystery, the more interesting it becomes”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson