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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

By Mitch Albom

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THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN

When I finished the last page of Mitch Albom's TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, I knew I had to share the book with as many people as I could. I proceeded to buy 41 copies, inscribe them all to my friends and family members, hand them out, mail them --- whateve ... (read full critics)

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven By Mitch Albom

How does an author follow up one of the most phenomenal bestsellers in recent publishing history? That was the dilemma facing Mitch Albom after his last book, Tuesdays with Morrie, perched itself atop the New York Times bestseller list and refused to ... (read full critics)

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The story is about heaven. It is not a heaven where you spend eternity in guilt-free bliss; instead it is a place where you gain a final understanding of your life and death. It is a place where you learn your last lessons – those that you wouldn’t understand when you’re still alive.
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The story is about heaven. It is not a heaven where you spend eternity in guilt-free bliss; instead it is a place where you gain a final understanding of your life and death. It is a place where you learn your last lessons – those that you wouldn’t understand when you’re still alive.
Lesson 1: “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. 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. 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.”
Lesson 2: “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. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”
Lesson 3: “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.”
Lesson 4: “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesn’t.”
Lesson 5: “They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.”

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Holmes said on Jun 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think a ... (continue)

I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think about what may seem like a minor incounter or incident may actually change someone else's life. Once someone told me to do something nice for someone without them asking and necessarily knowing what you did. This book made me think of that and the book and movie Pay It Forward. I think this is a great concept which is not put into practise near enough.Quotesp. 196Lines formed...five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl anemed Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have herquestions answered--why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was whiskered old man, with a linen cap and 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 in one.I think this quote sums up the whole book because it brings together the whole thing.Discussion questions1. What would your heaven look like?2. Has there been anyone in your life like the characters in this book?3. Who would you guess you would see in heaven if you died tomorrow?

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SheReads said on Mar 6, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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Many people told me that this book is a lecture of some very well-known principles, and that it is just another one. Yet, how many people can really live them out? I read this book as if I am attending 'lessons' as Mitch put it. And these lessons are as interesting as some of the best presented s ... (continue)

Many people told me that this book is a lecture of some very well-known principles, and that it is just another one. Yet, how many people can really live them out? I read this book as if I am attending 'lessons' as Mitch put it. And these lessons are as interesting as some of the best presented sermons. I read the book on my way back to work and on my ride back to home. It serves as a good reminder of those basic principles that I should never forget, especially amid the busy day.

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Joseph said on Aug 21, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I hope it is really like this.

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golfnut said on Feb 11, 2012 | Add your feedback

A meaningful story with an attractive/exciting start. Some lines were really touching.
People got to have their stories explained after death - why one lived and what one lived for. It just happened to be a line of five waiting in the heaven.
'Each affected the other and the other affected t ... (continue)

A meaningful story with an attractive/exciting start. Some lines were really touching.
People got to have their stories explained after death - why one lived and what one lived for. It just happened to be a line of five waiting in the heaven.
'Each affected the other and the other affected the next, and the world was full of stories, but the stories were all one'. Never underestimated, you could always influence the others.
1st: the Blue Man - why some die while other live
2nd: the Captain - tale of sacrifice and no sacrifice is a waste
3rd: Ruby - story behind ignorance and hatred
4th: Marguerite - no love is lost love
5th: Tala - no one is nothing, everyone is supposed to be there, the right position
　
"He lowered his chin and held his arms out like a glider, and every few steps he would jump, the way children do, hoping running will turn to flying."
"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"... stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven."
"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."

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Candy said on Jan 17, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Haiz.. you'd never knew who comes and goes in your life. And certainly wouldn't know what impact will cause your life to turn out differently.

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YoYo said on Dec 15, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN-10: 1405501855
ISBN-13: 9781405501859
Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub date: Apr 06, 2006
Dimensions: 903 mm x 774 mm Just how big is that?
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