r/quotes • u/PlayfulTrailSnacker • 6h ago
Philosophy / Ethics Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation - Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • 3h ago
Life / Wisdom Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. -Sam Levenson
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 3h ago
Life / Wisdom "Do not give alms alone, give charity; works of mercy do more than money for the relief of suffering; love others and they will love you; serve them and they will serve you; be their brother and they will be your children." — Rousseau, On Education
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 11h ago
Life / Wisdom “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 9h ago
Life / Wisdom "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 5h ago
Life / Wisdom "Since man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn." -Aphra Behn, c1688
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 17h ago
Philosophy / Ethics No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”― Ann Landers
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics The condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. Boethius
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”― May Sarton
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”― Andy Warhol
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r/quotes • u/Odd_Mechanic3688 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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r/quotes • u/From-Yuri-With-Love • 3d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.” - Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
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r/quotes • u/nautilicuss • 3d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “History shows us the life of nations and finds nothing to narrate but wars and tumults…” — Arthur Schopenhauer
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago
Motivation / Inspiration “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”― Shel Silverstein
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood..." - John Rogers [Complete Quote in comments]
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/Slavagoosemarlow • 2d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling but still trying to hold the world - What would you tell him?" "I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug.”―Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom Be like the rock against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Marcus Aurelius
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/Street-codes • 4d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry "Some love stories feel like a beginning, but ours—it feels like a return. Maybe we promised a thousand lifetimes ago that we’d find each other, no matter the stars, no matter the miles, and now here we are, two souls picking up where we left off." — @crownofsparrows
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”― Ambrose Bierce
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