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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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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
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Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
- Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
- Will Smith
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It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
- Theodore Roethke
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
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Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
- William Martin
The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
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Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
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Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
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Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
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They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
- Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
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I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
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There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
- Michael Chabon
Wonder Boys
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
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If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
- Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
- Will Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
- Theodore Roethke
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
- William Martin
The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
- Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
- Michael Chabon
Wonder Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
- Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
- Will Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
- Theodore Roethke
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
- William Martin
The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
- Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
- Michael Chabon
Wonder Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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