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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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the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
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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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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
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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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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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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
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The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
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Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
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The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
- Louise Penny
Still Life
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
- Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
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I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
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Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- Peter Stone
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Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
- Vaclav Havel
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The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
- Andre Agassi
Open
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Like madness is the glory of this life.
- Shakespeare
Timon of Athens
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
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When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.
- John Gardner
Grendel
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the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
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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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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
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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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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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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
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The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
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Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
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The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
- Louise Penny
Still Life
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
- Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
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I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- Peter Stone
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Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
- Vaclav Havel
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The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
- Andre Agassi
Open
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Like madness is the glory of this life.
- Shakespeare
Timon of Athens
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.
- John Gardner
Grendel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
- Nikki Giovanni
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
- Ai Yazawa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
- Louise Penny
Still Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
- Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- Peter Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
- Vaclav Havel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
- Andre Agassi
Open
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like madness is the glory of this life.
- Shakespeare
Timon of Athens
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.
- John Gardner
Grendel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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