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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Topic: Life
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
- Brian Tracy
Tracy Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Life
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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
- Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
Topic: Life
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You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
- Angelina Jolie
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky.
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
- Tom Stoppard
Rock 'n' Roll
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery.
- Alexandra Christo
To Kill a Kingdom
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
- Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.
- King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
- Frederick Buechner
The Alphabet of Grace
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
- Pope John Paul II
Love and Responsibility
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
- Joan Erickson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
[...] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace.
- S.L. Jennings
Fear of Falling
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world."
...
"The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.
- Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
- Brian Tracy
Tracy Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
- Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
- Angelina Jolie
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky.
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
- Tom Stoppard
Rock 'n' Roll
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery.
- Alexandra Christo
To Kill a Kingdom
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
- Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.
- King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
- Frederick Buechner
The Alphabet of Grace
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
- Pope John Paul II
Love and Responsibility
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
- Joan Erickson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
[...] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace.
- S.L. Jennings
Fear of Falling
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world."
...
"The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.
- Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
- Brian Tracy
Tracy Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
- Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
- Angelina Jolie
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky.
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
- Tom Stoppard
Rock 'n' Roll
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery.
- Alexandra Christo
To Kill a Kingdom
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
- Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.
- King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
- Frederick Buechner
The Alphabet of Grace
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
- Pope John Paul II
Love and Responsibility
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
- Joan Erickson
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
[...] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace.
- S.L. Jennings
Fear of Falling
Topic: Life, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world."
...
"The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.
- Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Topic: Life
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