Anna Quindlen Quotes

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• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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  Travel, Book, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

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  Courage, Heart, Character

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• Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

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  Literature, Life Is, Middle

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

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  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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  Ideas, Literature, Made

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• After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

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  Morning, Women, Smart

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• Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Two

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

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  Life, Children, Editors

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• So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

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  Happiness, Granted, Bedrock

  "Anna Quindlen discusses 'A Short Guide To A Happy Life'". BookBrowse interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

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  Daughter, Mother, Teenage

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.203, Ballantine Books

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• Today is the only guarantee you get.

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  Guarantees, Today

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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  Life, Journey, Dresses

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

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  Life, Opportunity, Starting Over

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• I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

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  Marriage, Husband, Mean

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

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  Dream, Book, Other Worlds

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• Speech is the voice of the heart.

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  Heart, Voice, Speech

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• Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

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  Morning, Someone You Love, Worst

  Anna Quindlen (2013). “Every Last One and Rise and Shine: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.229, Random House

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• The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

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  Travel, Book, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.

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  Smart, Leader, Want

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• Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

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  Children, Regret, Past

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”

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• The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

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  Voice, Doe, Done

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• being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

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  Strong, Giving, Parent

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• I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

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  Children, Shopping, Two

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.155, Ballantine Books

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