Anna Quindlen Quotes about Life

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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

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.

Anna Quindlen

Life, Children, Editors

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.

Anna Quindlen

Life, Journey, Dresses

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

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

Anna Quindlen

Life, Opportunity, Starting Over

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

Anna Quindlen

Inspirational, Funny, Life

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

Life, Beach, Ocean

Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.11, Ballantine Books

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

Anna Quindlen

Life, Long, Would Be

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen

Life, Party, College

Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.76, Random House