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The 34 Most Necessary Quotes

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The 34 Most Necessary Quotes

I'm really into quotes, so I put together a list of some of my favorites. Maybe you'll find some new material for your Instagram captions or twitter bios.


1. “Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?” -Jodi Picoult

2. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." -Oscar Wilde

3. "How wild it was, to let it be." -Cheryl Strayed

4. "We waste so many days waiting for the weekend. So many nights wanting morning. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life." -Joshua Glenn Clark

5. "You are my greatest adventure." -from The Incredibles

6. "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." -Vince Lombardi

7. "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." -Grace Hopper

8. "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." -Bram Stroker

9. "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." -J.D. Salinger

10. "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." -W. Clement Stone

11. "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." -Billy Wilder

12. "All good things are wild and free." -Henry David Thoreau

13. "Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness." -Thomas Henry Huxley

14. "The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." -John Zabat-Zinn

15. "Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill His promises to her." -Luke 1:45

16. "You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy." -C. Joybell C.

17. "I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving." -John Green

18. "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." -Jeremiah 29:13

19. "I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles these three things; a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas lights." -Maya Angelou

20. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:38-39

21. "I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." -Isaiah 46:4

22. "Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." -Martin Luther King Jr.

23. "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Henry David Thoreau

24. "Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person." -Gloria Steinem

25. "Be humble in your confidence, yet courageous in your character." -Melanie Koulouris

26. "In the waves of change, we find our true direction." -Anonymous

27. "Never let the noise of the world overpower the still small voice" -L. Tom Perry

28. "But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are." -Don Cheadle

29. "It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now." -Hugh Laurie

30. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller

31. "I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future." -Tim Tebow

32. "You had the power all along, my dear." - Glinda, The Good Witch

33. "And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope." -Dr. Meredith Grey

34. "It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." -Four (Divergent)

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