10 Best Book Quotes For Your Life
If you’re ever in need of inspiration, life understanding, or a little bit of honesty, open a book. There’s always tons of wisdom in those printed pages.
Jazz by Toni Morrison
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
This quote gives a different view of beginning to love someone. Rather than ‘falling,’ love can be something you rise and grow into.
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
“Forgiveness condones nothing, but it does cast off the chains of anger, judgment, resentment, denial, and pain that choke growth. In this way, it allows for life, for freedom. So that’s what’s at stake when it comes to forgiveness: freedom. With this freedom, we can feel better, be better, and choose better next time.”
Sometimes forgiving is hard, but Harper details exactly why it’s important to learn how to forgive.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
“Home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
No one gets to choose their family, nor where they are born. This is why this quote resonates with many readers.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
The world is a beautiful place, but not everyone notices it. Alice Walker tries to remind her readers to take notice of the world around them.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
This classic book is full of wisdom, and this quote especially opens minds to the thought that we should not doubt everything.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
A smart man, Obama, shares his ideals that if you have enthusiasm, you can do almost anything.
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
Are you living your life in the present? This quote helps us stop and think about this.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
“You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.”
As humans, connections are important. We may not feel like we need others around, but loneliness affects us all.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Tolkien is loved for his words, and again he departs wisdom on his readers by pointing out that you do what you can with what you have, and that’s enough.