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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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I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
- Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
- François Truffaut
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I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
- Karl Marx
Critique of the Gotha Program
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
- Bill Watterson
It's a Magical World
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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
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This is the strangest life I have ever known.
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I bargained with Life for a penny,
and Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

Life is a just employer.
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Book of Positive Quotations
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.
- Mr. Nobody
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
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dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
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Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.
- Glennon Doyle
Untamed
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I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
- Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones
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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
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When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
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Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
- Rashi
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Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.

And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.
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I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
- Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
- François Truffaut
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I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
- Karl Marx
Critique of the Gotha Program
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
- Bill Watterson
It's a Magical World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
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This is the strangest life I have ever known.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I bargained with Life for a penny,
and Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

Life is a just employer.
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Book of Positive Quotations
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.
- Mr. Nobody
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.
- Glennon Doyle
Untamed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
- Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
- Rashi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.

And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
- Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
- François Truffaut
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
- Karl Marx
Critique of the Gotha Program
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
- Bill Watterson
It's a Magical World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is the strangest life I have ever known.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I bargained with Life for a penny,
and Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

Life is a just employer.
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Book of Positive Quotations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.
- Mr. Nobody
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.
- Glennon Doyle
Untamed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
- Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
- Rashi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.

And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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