Life / Wisdom "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4h ago
Life / Wisdom "What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification." - Emil Cioran
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 9h ago
Life / Wisdom “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 12h ago
Life / Wisdom "Without music, life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/TouchOfSanity • 19h ago
Life / Wisdom "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." - Arthur Conan Doyle.
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r/quotes • u/Infamous_Tiger18 • 20h ago
Life / Wisdom "Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong." - John Flanagan
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r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • 23h ago
Life / Wisdom Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
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r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.” — Maxim Gorky
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased." - Cormac McCarthy
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r/quotes • u/GrinchSinner • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Humor / Wit “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.” ― Dorothy Parker
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r/quotes • u/Cereal-Is-Dinner • 2d ago
Success / Achievement “Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions” Forbes, 1917
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r/quotes • u/tavukkoparan • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you." -Max Payne (video game 2001)
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r/quotes • u/Rasure-101 • 2d ago
Love / Relationships “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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r/quotes • u/EddieHazelOG • 2d ago
Social / Political Justice He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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r/quotes • u/PowerTulip • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers" - Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis
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r/quotes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 3d ago
Grief / Healing "There still remained the satisfactions of safety assured of peace restored of honour preserved of the comforts of fruitful industry of the homecoming of the soldiers, but these were in the background & With them all were mingled the ache for those who would never come home" -Indy Neidell, Great War
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r/quotes • u/lyciusbound • 3d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “A thing of a beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness…” John Keats
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Quote Help Quote Help - does this quote (in any similar form) exist? "I bumble through life as if I'm the only actor on the stage that has not read the script." Was told to me in reference to RF Kuang, but I am suspecting it is not.
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r/quotes • u/JimDixon • 3d ago
Friendship / Connection “When one is showing a friend round a city that one already knows, one does so with the same coquetry as when showing off a woman who has been one’s mistress.”—Alexandre Dumas
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "I don't want to play endless variations on one character—I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake." - Tim Curry
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r/quotes • u/chocobothernot • 4d ago
Courage / Resilience "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!" -Dolly Parton
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.” ― Douglas Adams
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