the five people you meet in heaven quotable quotes

"No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river." & "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."  

Everything is interconnected. Everyone has the power to affect others, it may be in a good way or in a bad way, the good thing about this -it's a cycle. There's a story behind a story.. A story that could make you realize why things happen. - And yes, certainly. Everything happens for a reason. You may not know it for now but surely you will know it when the right time comes. 

"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."

Albom gave a good imagery of heaven. For him heaven actually isn't just a paradise garden but also a representation of the phase wherein the spirit will finally get his eternal peace. It's like a place that justifies everything that happened in his life, an absolute freedom of all the troubles that he got while living on earth. 

"No life is a waste, the only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." - Blue Man

Everything that you do will surely affect others - the good & the bad. Let's compare two middle-aged man both has family of their own with different careers, one is a CEO of his own company, the other man is a janitor for a long time. Some would say the CEO man's life was much sophisticated than the janitor man. But the truth is, they're just the same. They may have dealt with different situations in life BUT they both have the power to affect others. - the good & the bad. No matter what the condition of their life is, they still have the choice to make it count, to make it worth living. The janitor might change the outlook of a troubled employee by just saying "Good morning" everyday or the CEO could break someone’s career by simply saying "You're fired". It's always a cycle of acts within a story and cycle of story because of the acts. 

"I took your leg to save your life." - Captain

This is probably my favorite quote from the book; it has astonishingly gave literal meaning to why does the captain shot Eddie but it also gave a metaphorical meaning. You may lose something that you dearly love; it may be a loved one, smart phone or a job. It may not make sense for awhile but it will eventually make sense when you finally knew the reason why you have lost it, maybe it's for the better or maybe not.. but IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE A REASON. IT SHOULD HAVE & IT HAS. 

"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." - Captain

Eddie got two events in his life that gave him the chance to perform "sacrifice". The first one is going to war and the second is when his father died. Unfortunately, he bagged those events as the downfall of his life because it's different on how he pictures his life would be, a life that is worth living, a story that will truly inspire a lot of people. But the thing is, real life is inevitable, things happens because everything is interconnected and everyone has the power to affect the other. It might be cliché as it sounds but clearly, we could not change the situation, but we could choose what to do in the situation. And in the end you'll realize that your life here on earth is just a training ground on how to attain the right attitude on dealing things. If only Eddie wasn't blinded of how these events changed his life, his life will be more different. Truly, sacrifice must always be something not to regret..never.

"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." 

What do I know about parenthood? I've never been a mother except from my boyfriend's dog. So let me speak from a child's point of view. Yes, it’s really true. Parenthood is one of the noblest job you'll ever have. My uncle whom I treat as my father told us that children are like report cards of their parents, they are the evidence if their parenthood career was successful, and when the time comes God will ask each of the parents what happened to their children and they will be accountable to whatever the result is. But then again no one's perfect. No one is too righteous enough to perfectly raise their children. Everyone has their own glitch on what kind of person did their child have become. 

"No one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it." - Ruby

No one is born with anger, it's the reaction of one person to a situation where he felt injustice, it may occur in different situations and scenarios in someone's life, And when he dies he'll finally know that the "certain thing" that have aggravate his feelings got his own story to tell, a story that will make him understand why these certain things happened. Indeed, Albom demonstrated that heaven is a place where everything that happened in your life will finally make sense. 

"PEOPLE SAY THEY "find" love, as if 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 Eddie found a certain love with Marguerite, a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable."

Everyone is entitled to fall in love - in any form. Up to the most obscure ways.. but the only thing that will matter is kind of love that outages all the uncertainty, that finally everything have become certain and you'll realize it's the kind of love you'll only feel once.

There you go! That's my list of quotable quotes from the book! The five people you meet in heaven is definitely a good read! Feel free to share your opinion and favorite quotes from the book. 

Now I'm about to watch the movie adaptation, fingers-crossed! Hope it’s a good one. For those who also want to watch the movie adaption here is the link: The Five People You Meet in Heaven Movie. Enjoy watching! As I hopefully do! :-p