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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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Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
- Sidney Sheldon
Bloodline
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Topic: Life
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
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Topic: Life
XXX
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Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love.
Topic: Life
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader
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Topic: Life
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
- Joseph Heller
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Topic: Life
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
- Emma Donoghue
Room
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Topic: Life
The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
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Topic: Life, Relationships
A stumble may prevent a fall.
- Thomas Fuller
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Topic: Life
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
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Topic: Life
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Topic: Life
I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico García Lorca
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Topic: Life
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.
- Leo Babauta
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Topic: Life
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
- Louis L'Amour
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Topic: Life
Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
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Topic: Life
XXX
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Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Topic: Life
XXX
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.
Topic: Life
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
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Topic: Life
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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Topic: Life
The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
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Topic: Life
Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.
- Han Kang
The Vegetarian
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Topic: Life
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
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Topic: Life
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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Topic: Life
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
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Topic: Life
XXX
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Topic: Life, Philosophical
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
- Sidney Sheldon
Bloodline
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love.
Topic: Life
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
- Joseph Heller
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
- Emma Donoghue
Room
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life, Relationships
A stumble may prevent a fall.
- Thomas Fuller
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico García Lorca
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.
- Leo Babauta
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
- Louis L'Amour
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
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Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.
Topic: Life
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.
- Han Kang
The Vegetarian
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Topic: Life, Philosophical
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
- Sidney Sheldon
Bloodline
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love.
Topic: Life
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
- Joseph Heller
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
- Emma Donoghue
Room
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life, Relationships
A stumble may prevent a fall.
- Thomas Fuller
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico García Lorca
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.
- Leo Babauta
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
- Louis L'Amour
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.
Topic: Life
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.
- Han Kang
The Vegetarian
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Topic: Life, Philosophical
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