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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Be happy, but never satisfied.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
- T.S. Eliot.
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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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All knowledge is worth having.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Dart
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What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
- E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
- Lisa Wingate
A Month of Summer
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Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
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How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
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If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- Ian McEwan
Atonement
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
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We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
- James Patterson
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
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...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
- Ally Carter
Only the Good Spy Young
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The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
- Nikita Gill
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One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- Harold Pinter
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Be happy, but never satisfied.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
- T.S. Eliot.
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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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All knowledge is worth having.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Dart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
- E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
- Lisa Wingate
A Month of Summer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- Ian McEwan
Atonement
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
- James Patterson
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
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...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
- Ally Carter
Only the Good Spy Young
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The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
- Nikita Gill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- Harold Pinter
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
- T.S. Eliot.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All knowledge is worth having.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Dart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
- E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
- Lisa Wingate
A Month of Summer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- Ian McEwan
Atonement
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
- James Patterson
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
- Ally Carter
Only the Good Spy Young
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
- Nikita Gill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- Harold Pinter
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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