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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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A kiss may ruin a human life
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
- Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
- Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- Goldie Hawn
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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?
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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
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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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
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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
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
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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
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
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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
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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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
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A kiss may ruin a human life
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
- Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
- Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- Goldie Hawn
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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?
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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
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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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
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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
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
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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
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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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
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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
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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
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There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
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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
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A kiss may ruin a human life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
- Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
- Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- Goldie Hawn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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