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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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The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
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We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
- Hermann Hesse
Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
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Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
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It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
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What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
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Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
- Jim Morrison
An American Prayer
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You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
- Louis C.K.
Hopeless
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Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
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I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
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To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
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I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
- Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
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CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
- Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
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Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
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there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
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Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
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The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
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We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
- Hermann Hesse
Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
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It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
- Jim Morrison
An American Prayer
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You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
- Louis C.K.
Hopeless
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
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I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
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I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
- Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
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CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
- Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
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Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
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there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
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We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
- Hermann Hesse
Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
- Jim Morrison
An American Prayer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
- Louis C.K.
Hopeless
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
- Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
- Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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