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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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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
- Immanuel Kant
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
- Terence McKenna
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My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
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We strive for harmony, but it is not always realized.
- C. Toni Graham
Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
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Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
- John Piper
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
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There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
- Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
- Osho
The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.
- Osho
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The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
- Mary Daly
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
- Novalis
Philosophical Writings
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Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
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Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Notes on Grief
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Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
- Lynsay Sands
A Quick Bite
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With me, the present is forever and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand…hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
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Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!
- Rob Liano
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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
- Immanuel Kant
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
- Terence McKenna
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My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We strive for harmony, but it is not always realized.
- C. Toni Graham
Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
- John Piper
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
- Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
- Osho
The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.
- Osho
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The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
- Mary Daly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
- Novalis
Philosophical Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Notes on Grief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
- Lynsay Sands
A Quick Bite
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With me, the present is forever and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand…hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!
- Rob Liano
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
- Immanuel Kant
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
- Terence McKenna
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We strive for harmony, but it is not always realized.
- C. Toni Graham
Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
- John Piper
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
- Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
- Osho
The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.
- Osho
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
- Mary Daly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
- Novalis
Philosophical Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.
- Samantha Young
On Dublin Street
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Notes on Grief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
- Lynsay Sands
A Quick Bite
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With me, the present is forever and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand…hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!
- Rob Liano
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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