“Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
Charlie (narrator) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
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266 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
Charlie (narrator) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
“Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
Charlie (narrator) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
Charlie (narrator) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C.S. Lewis
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
Yoko Ono
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Experience," Essays: Second Series, 1844
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, April 20, 1840
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“A good meal shared, a door held open, a debt remembered and repaid. These are the actual events of a life. Everything else is footnote.”
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“Every city is a thousand private stories happening simultaneously, and you are one of them, no more or less.”
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“Some days the best you can do is get through them without becoming someone you'd be ashamed of by morning.”
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“Routine is not a cage. It's the ground you stand on while everything else shifts.”
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“The day asks nothing grand of you. It only asks that you show up honest and leave something a little better than you found it.”
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