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Life Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee…
- If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
- There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes…
- ... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions,…
- The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed,
- I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like…
- You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind,…
- When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
- When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be…
- Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If…
- Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
- We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
- Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold…
- A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
- Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you…
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out…
- Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the…
- The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
- I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible…
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
- While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who…
- How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find…
- Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle