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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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We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
- Jack London
The Call of the Wild
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Cease, cows, life is short.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
- Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Goodbye Tsugumi
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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
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And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.
- V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
- Lisa Kleypas
Sugar Daddy
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Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
- Nicholas Sparks
Nights in Rodanthe
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]
- Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
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We’re running out of time, he said.

As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.

But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.
- Tahereh Mafi
Unravel Me
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Potential has a shelf life.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye
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HEARTWORK

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- Jean Rhys
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
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You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
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Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
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We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
- Jack London
The Call of the Wild
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Cease, cows, life is short.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
- Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Goodbye Tsugumi
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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
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And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.
- V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
- Lisa Kleypas
Sugar Daddy
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Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
- Nicholas Sparks
Nights in Rodanthe
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]
- Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
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We’re running out of time, he said.

As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.

But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.
- Tahereh Mafi
Unravel Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Potential has a shelf life.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
HEARTWORK

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- Jean Rhys
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
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You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
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Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
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We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
- Jack London
The Call of the Wild
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cease, cows, life is short.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
- Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Goodbye Tsugumi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.
- V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
- Lisa Kleypas
Sugar Daddy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
- Nicholas Sparks
Nights in Rodanthe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]
- Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We’re running out of time, he said.

As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.

But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.
- Tahereh Mafi
Unravel Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Potential has a shelf life.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
HEARTWORK

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- Jean Rhys
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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