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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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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
- Eleanor Brown
The Weird Sisters
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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
- George Orwell
Animal Farm
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I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
- Harper Lee
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What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
- to know who you are and to be that person
- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself
- Sue Fitzmaurice
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I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
- Takeshi Shudo
The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
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I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]
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What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
- Rainbow Rowell
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عندما تُسامح فإنك تتنازل عن غضبك للآخرين
- ياسر حارب
على لسان الطائر الأزرق
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Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.
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You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
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Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
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Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
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Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.
- Lisa Schroeder
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
- Eleanor Brown
The Weird Sisters
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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
- George Orwell
Animal Farm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
- Harper Lee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
- to know who you are and to be that person
- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself
- Sue Fitzmaurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
- Takeshi Shudo
The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]
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What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
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عندما تُسامح فإنك تتنازل عن غضبك للآخرين
- ياسر حارب
على لسان الطائر الأزرق
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Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.
- Lisa Schroeder
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
- Eleanor Brown
The Weird Sisters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
- George Orwell
Animal Farm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
- Charlotte Eriksson
Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
- Harper Lee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
- to know who you are and to be that person
- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself
- Sue Fitzmaurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
- Takeshi Shudo
The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
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عندما تُسامح فإنك تتنازل عن غضبك للآخرين
- ياسر حارب
على لسان الطائر الأزرق
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Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.
- Lisa Schroeder
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
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