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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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But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
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If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
- Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.
- Caitlin Moran
How to Be a Woman
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You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
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Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
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I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
- Thomas Keller
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I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
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I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The Prince and the Pauper
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Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
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The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.
- Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
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What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
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Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- Walker Percy
The Second Coming
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
- Martha Graham
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Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Brave
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But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
- Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.
- Caitlin Moran
How to Be a Woman
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You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
- Thomas Keller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The Prince and the Pauper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.
- Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- Walker Percy
The Second Coming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
- Martha Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Brave
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
- Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.
- Caitlin Moran
How to Be a Woman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
- Thomas Keller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The Prince and the Pauper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.
- Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.
- Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- Walker Percy
The Second Coming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
- Martha Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Brave
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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