CURATED COLLECTION

Second Chances in Life

Not everyone gets one — and the ones who do often didn't recognize it until it was almost gone.

50 quotes found

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A person can be born twice: the second time when you realize you only have one life.

—Gabriel García MárquezNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Life is like a ship, which must brave the storms and not just anchor in port.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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To fear change is to fear life itself, for life is constant transformation.

—Carmen NaranjoPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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It was the old human predicament: how to get through the intervening stages of one's life.

—Edith WhartonNovelist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Change is difficult and change is what also creates opportunity.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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In a city of refugees, every day was a lesson in how to live with impermanence.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Life is a railway station, where one gets off for a while, then goes on.

—Marina TsvetaevaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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To suffer and to be reborn; that is the law of life.

—August StrindbergPlaywright, Novelist & Painter

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

—Marcus AureliusEmperor & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

—Ruth Bader GinsburgLawyer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Sometimes, to move forward, one must look back.

—Aminatta FornaAuthor

Contemporary ERA • West Africa

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Leave the past behind, and let the dead bury their dead.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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Freedom wasn't a given; it was an invention, a daily practice.

—Saidiya HartmanScholar & Author

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I have crossed an ocean. I have lost my tongue. From the root of the old one, a new one has sprung.

—Grace NicholsPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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The world is a mirror, reflecting what you are. If you dislike what you see, change yourself.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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