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#1

“Reflecting on various aspects of our lives is essential for a person to grow and adjust to changing phases in their life. Self-analysis entails examining a person’s existing level of self-esteem and documenting the inner voice that speaks to a person, which is frequently either affirming of self-defeating. Failure to periodically engage in self-analysis, make crucial revisions in our personas, and modify our thinking patterns when we encounter transformative events in life can lead to mood disorders, burnout, and other emotional maladies.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: change-your-life, life-stages, mindset, mindset-quotes, personal-development, personal-growth, self-analysis, self-awareness, self-awareness-quotes, self-realization, self-reflection, stages-of-life

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#2

“Every stage of life has it's valuable lessons to be learn't”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: lesson-for-life, lesson-in-ife, life-and-living, life-philosophy, stages-of-life

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#3

“Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: life-stages, philosophy-of-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, self-determination, self-determination-quotes, self-discovery, stages-of-life

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#4

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: age-is-just-a-number, be-what-you-want-to-be, better-days-ahead, life-stages, make-each-day-count, make-every-moment-count, no-turning-back, patience-and-timing, perception-of-life, seize-the-moment

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#5

“I just wasn’t the same person at thirty that I was at twenty,” he said. “And neither was she.”
“I don’t think anybody is,” I said.
“I feel a bit jaded by it now, to be honest,” he said. “Like, will I be the same person at forty? Or . . .”
“Will we outgrow this, too?” I said, completing his thought.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

tags: growing-old, life-stages

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#6

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspirational, life-and-living, life-lessons

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#7

“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: be-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#8

“I know faintly, even now, that I have embarrassed myself, and it always comes back to the feeling of childhood, that huge pieces of knowledge about the world were missing that can never be replaced.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

tags: childhood-memories, childhood-trauma

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#9

“As Nigerians say,
Don't drink Panadol for another
person's headache.
Drink water and mind your business.”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

tags: african-authors, african-quotes, africans, cameroonian-author, nigerian-quotes

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#10

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#11

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#12

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

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#13

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

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#14

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#15

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

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#16

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

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#17

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

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#18

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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#19

“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: anger, bittnerness, competing, competition, confidence, confident, games, god-s-plan, insecure-women, insecurity, jealous, jealousy, owning-it, powerful, purpose-of-life, self-esteem, spirituality, warrior-women

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#20

“The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

tags: purpose-of-life

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#21

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

tags: books, necessities, purpose-of-life, reading, spiritual-life, treasures

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#22

“You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

tags: good-deeds, inspirational, purpose-of-life

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#23

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
― Clint Eastwood

tags: happiness, heaven-made, lightning, marriage, married-life, matrimony, quarrel, thunder

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#24

“When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: married-life

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#25

“There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...”
― Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

tags: marriage, married-life

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#26

“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: false-arches, happiness, harmony, keystones, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, support, togetherness

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#27

“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

tags: life-and-death, marriage, married-life, nothing-left, suicide

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#28

“When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...”
― Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums

tags: character, character-of-a-man, character-over-looks, looks-are-not-important, looks-fades-away, marriage-advice, married-life, one-s-character, personality

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#29

“Relationships are a lot like houses: without a good foundation, they’ll crumble. When a light bulb goes out, you don’t buy a new house, you change the bulb. When the faucet drips, you don’t start mopping the floor before you fix the leak. In other words, no matter how much digging it takes, it’s important to get to the root of a problem.”
― Christina Lauren, The Honey-Don't List

tags: love, marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-counseling, married-life, relationship-advice, relationship-quotes, romance, romance-novel

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#30

“When he had first known her, the violent decisiveness with which she judged people had charmed him. For Emma, people were enemies or protectors. Even though the charm had worn off, he sometimes envied her–her sense of others devoid of the kind of complex and enervating reflections he was given to–for within her limits she was clear while he, he thought, moved in a permanent blur.”
― Paula Fox, Poor George

tags: married-life

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