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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
- Ann Druyan
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
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For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.
- Nicola Yoon
Everything, Everything
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The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
- J.D. Salinger
A Girl I Knew
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.
- Rascal Flatts
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I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
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So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
- Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer
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Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I'd be alright. We'd get rained on together. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrela to shelter us from the worst of it. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
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I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.
- David Almond
Jackdaw Summer
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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
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She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
- Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
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If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
- C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain
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They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true.
I think that’s crap.
I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
- Ann Druyan
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
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For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.
- Nicola Yoon
Everything, Everything
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The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
- J.D. Salinger
A Girl I Knew
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.
- Rascal Flatts
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I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
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So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
- Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer
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Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I'd be alright. We'd get rained on together. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrela to shelter us from the worst of it. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
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I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.
- David Almond
Jackdaw Summer
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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
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She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
- Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
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If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
- C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain
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They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true.
I think that’s crap.
I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
- Ann Druyan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.
- Nicola Yoon
Everything, Everything
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The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
- J.D. Salinger
A Girl I Knew
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.
- Rascal Flatts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
- Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer
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Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I'd be alright. We'd get rained on together. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrela to shelter us from the worst of it. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
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I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.
- David Almond
Jackdaw Summer
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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
- Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
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If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
- C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true.
I think that’s crap.
I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
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