Top 40 Gillian Duce Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is a beautiful song. It is up to you the lyrics and tune.”

— Gillian Duce

2. “Don’t be shy: for to be shy means that you do not believe in who you are or your worth.”

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3. “Fortune always smiles upon those who make the universe laugh.”

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4. “Find yourself and you will find your freedom.”

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5. “Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.”

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6. “It is an illusion to pursue happiness, for happiness is already within. It is to lose fear, doubt and sorrow that one must understand, as these cloud happiness from shining in all of its radiance.”

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7. “Don’t ever let that feeling that you were meant to do great things turn out to be a lie.”

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8. “Take time to be a butterfly.”

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9. “Seedlings of life sometimes come out of the fertiliser of what was left behind.”

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10. “We don’t blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don’t blame others for the shape of your experience.”

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11. “Light your life with purpose and all shadows will disappear.”

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12. “Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone’s negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.”

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13. “Never concern yourself too much with gossips and those that speak against you. Remember, it is always the loudest prey that gains the trapper’s attention.”

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14. “I know that I would rather be shunned or laughed at for being me than have slime on my spine as a traitor to myself.”

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15. “The mirror of life casts reflections that cascade the emotions.”

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16. “Forgiveness is the four leafed clover of life.”

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17. “You can’t always save someone by getting in the water with them. Sometimes, you must lead by example and show them how to get on the boat.”

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18. “All dreams are realities waiting for us to believe in them.”

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19. “A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.”

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20. “Life is like a good book; There is bound to be typos and errors in it, but the only ones that noticed them are the critics and haters.”

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21. “Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.”

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22. “Find the beautiful; the perfect; the wonderful in life and then remind yourself that you are part of it; therein you are all of these things and more.”

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23. “Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.”

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24. “Everyone thinks that they are some form of genius until they try to rationalise with a child.”

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25. “The wildest thing in life is your own mind and the extremes it can take you.”

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26. “In gratitude and joy, my heart sings better than ever in words I could.”

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27. “You can’t make a worm understand the language of a bear.”

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28. “One’s own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another’s. Common sense is not so common.”

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29. “Be the peace you would like to see in the world.”

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30. “To live with regret is to deny one’s life of living.”

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31. “Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.”

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32. “How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.”

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33. “When will you love yourself: that other people’s approval no longer matters?”

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34. “Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman’s net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms continuous connection to make the whole -which works perfectly; know that in the broader picture of life, all things are connected, including you. Even when you feel otherwise disconnected from another – the whole always works perfectly.”

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35. “Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.”

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36. “I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.”

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37. “It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.”

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38. “When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.”

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39. “People who say that they know who you are, based on you from the past, is akin to saying that they know who you are now based on clothing you once wore.”

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40. “Peace will only ever be obtained when we realize that our neighbor is really us in a different guise.”

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41. “It is difficult for one to see the roof of a house when one is on the inside of that same house. The same is true when seeing something from a great distance, where vision is distorted.”

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42. “It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.”

— Gillian Duce