“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison · The Tatler, 1710
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229 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011
“Heartbreak is my greatest inspiration. I wish it wasn't, but it is.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always felt like I existed outside of every group.”
Oliver Tree
“The whole thing is a joke, but the pain is genuine.”
Oliver Tree
“I want people to feel like they're not alone in being a mess.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always been the weird kid, the outcast. I just decided to own it.”
Oliver Tree · NME interview, 2020
“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
