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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 celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Topic: Life, Religion
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Life
Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
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Topic: Life
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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Topic: Life
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
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Topic: Life
I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
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Topic: Life
I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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Topic: Life
If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
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Topic: Life
XXX
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Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
Topic: Life
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Topic: Life, Religion
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Topic: Life
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 " )
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
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Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
Topic: Life
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Topic: Life, Religion
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
- L.J. Smith
The Forbidden Game
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
- Robert Holden
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Topic: Life
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 " )
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
- John Green
Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
Topic: Life
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
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