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Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences.   ◀ Back
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Yeah, about the test...

The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.

...I know, right?
Topic: Life
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In the meantime, I hope you will find your place, wherever you are. Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.
- Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals
Topic: Life
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Topic: Life
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You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
- David Levithan
Every You, Every Me
Topic: Life
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You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Topic: Life
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You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
- Carrie Ryan
The Dead-Tossed Waves
Topic: Life
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I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
- Hilary Duff
Topic: Life
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There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
Topic: Life
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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
- Parker J. Palmer
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean.
- Deborah Garrison
A Working Girl Can't Win
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
- Carrie Jones
Entice
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...
- Wilhelm Reich
Listen, Little Man!
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
- Karin Slaughter
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yeah, about the test...

The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.

...I know, right?
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the meantime, I hope you will find your place, wherever you are. Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.
- Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
- David Levithan
Every You, Every Me
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
- Carrie Ryan
The Dead-Tossed Waves
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
- Hilary Duff
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
- Parker J. Palmer
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean.
- Deborah Garrison
A Working Girl Can't Win
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
- Carrie Jones
Entice
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...
- Wilhelm Reich
Listen, Little Man!
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
- Karin Slaughter
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yeah, about the test...

The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.

...I know, right?
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the meantime, I hope you will find your place, wherever you are. Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.
- Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
- David Levithan
Every You, Every Me
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
- Carrie Ryan
The Dead-Tossed Waves
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
- Hilary Duff
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
- Parker J. Palmer
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean.
- Deborah Garrison
A Working Girl Can't Win
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
- Carrie Jones
Entice
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...
- Wilhelm Reich
Listen, Little Man!
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
- Karin Slaughter
Topic: Life
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