“I've always been the weird kid, the outcast. I just decided to own it.”
Oliver Tree · NME interview, 2020
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Everything I do is a character, but the emotions are real.”
Oliver Tree · Rolling Stone interview, 2020
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, January 1957
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics
“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”
Elon Musk · On joining the internet industry, various interviews
“When I was a child, there's one thing that made me feel the most despair, which was reading about the heat death of the universe.”
Elon Musk · Interview, various
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
“I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
Robert Frost · The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
