“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
Jim Rohn
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254 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
Washington Irving
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
Paulo Coelho
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting go of a little water.”
Antoine Rivarol
“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis · A Grief Observed, 1961
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
Hilary Stanton Zunin
“The loveliness of the day is almost unbearable.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl
“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.”
Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“In the summer I lie loosely in the grass and listen to the silence that moves.”
Eudora Welty · The Eye of the Story
“Every summer has a story.”
John Grisham · Sycamore Row
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · "Counsels and Maxims", 1851
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.”
E.B. White
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
Monica Baldwin · "I Leap Over the Wall", 1949
