“The version of yourself that shows up when someone is watching is also you. Don't be so quick to dismiss it.”
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien · The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain · Notebook, 1904
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov · Speak, Memory, 1951
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Man is condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism Is a Humanism, 1945
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”
Nicholas Sparks · A Walk to Remember, 1999
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Dorothy Thompson
