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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
- Henry James
Theory of Fiction: Henry James
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
- Bram Stoker
Dracula
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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
- Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
- Robin Hood
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
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Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
- Tennessee Williams
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.
- R.D. Ronald
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One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
- Courtney Summers
Sadie
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Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
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He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.
- Cassandra Clare
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
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There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
- Robert Service
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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The View from the Seventh Layer
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I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
- Jandy Nelson
The Sky Is Everywhere
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The river is everywhere.
- Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- Stephen King
Duma Key
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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- Harold Kushner
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Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
- Chelsea Fine
Anew
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
- Henry James
Theory of Fiction: Henry James
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
- Bram Stoker
Dracula
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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
- Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
- Robin Hood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
- Tennessee Williams
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.
- R.D. Ronald
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
- Courtney Summers
Sadie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.
- Cassandra Clare
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
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There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
- Robert Service
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The View from the Seventh Layer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
- Jandy Nelson
The Sky Is Everywhere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river is everywhere.
- Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- Stephen King
Duma Key
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- Harold Kushner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
- Chelsea Fine
Anew
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
- Henry James
Theory of Fiction: Henry James
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
- Bram Stoker
Dracula
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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
- Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
- Robin Hood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
- Tennessee Williams
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.
- R.D. Ronald
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
- Courtney Summers
Sadie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.
- Cassandra Clare
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
- Robert Service
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The View from the Seventh Layer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
- Jandy Nelson
The Sky Is Everywhere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river is everywhere.
- Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- Stephen King
Duma Key
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- Harold Kushner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
- Chelsea Fine
Anew
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