Top 35 Karen McQuestion Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Think about where you’d like to be a year from now and use every bit of your imagination to visualize it. You’ll need to do this with a serious intent if you want to make your wishes your reality.”

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2. “There were so many good people in the world, but it always seemed like there were more bad people because they made more noise.”

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3. “She mentally went over her mantra: You can’t control other people, only yourself.”

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4. “This world is made for the living, Dan. Death, and accepting death, is a part of life.”

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5. “You’re so caught up thinking about what you want that you don’t even see what you have.”

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6. “I’m a night owl by nature and an insomniac on occasion. You’ll often find me awake at this hour, alone in my thoughts. I also like to read late at night. The world doesn’t intrude like it does during the day.” I.”

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7. “Your wish is my command, little one.”

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8. “The world can be a big, cold place. No reason we can’t give each other a hand and ease the way a bit.”

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9. “Seems like sometimes life gives you what you need instead of what you want, if you know what I mean.”

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10. “The truth of it was, Jazzy mused, that if you had at least one person who believed in you, you could tolerate almost anything.”

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11. “Time was as fluid as a river. Waiting for something exciting made time crawl on its knees, and working on deadline made time sprint.”

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12. “Oh Heavenly Father, goddess mother, spirits of the universe, let our vibrations be positive and our actions harmonious.”

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13. “Every day, he tried to do at least one nice thing for someone else, a habit he’d started in college. He felt that if everyone did it, the world would be a better place and that he was obligated to lead by example.”

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14. “Everyone had something – some fear, some shortcoming, some problem. And some people had multiples in each area. The problems were what made people human beings – they fostered compassion and encouraged growth. What would be the point if everyone was perfect?”

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15. “There was something about facing an impossible task, breaking it down into small parts, and getting the job done that she found immensely satisfying.”

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16. “Life sure went by quick when you weren’t paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed by.”

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17. “I have faith that when the time is right I’ll find what I’m really meant to do with my life, and it will all come together for me. For now, this is good.”

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18. “Don’t underestimate the Canadians, I always say. They seem all nice and polite and apologetic, but when it comes right down to it, they’re survivors.”

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19. “People loved their dogs. They were their children, their companions, sometimes even their soul mates. Some people swore that their dog had an almost psychic connection with them, sensing when they were sad and bringing them comfort.”

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20. “Do the thing you long to do and become the person you’re destined to be.”

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21. “Every cell in your body, she said, was a quark, a sort of vibrating string. And through their thoughts and intentions, human beings had an almost magnetic power to attract similar strings out in the universe. As the number and intensity of these attracted strings build, a critical mass is reached and the want, whatever that may be, comes into being. “Most of us are more powerful than we know. We are each in charge of our own vibrating energy.”

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22. “Homeschooling? What was she thinking? All I could envision were those religious families, the ones with the little girls wearing Amish dresses and the boys with their slicked-back hair and matching polo shirts. I’d seen groups of them at the mall, following their mother single file, pretending it was a field trip.”

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23. “I did a quick look online to see if there was anything in the news about meteors or shooting stars or weird lights in the sky, but there was nothing at all. Nada.”

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24. “What I have are people – not really good friends, but a notch up from acquaintances.”

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25. “Life as an honest person could be difficult, but life as a criminal always caught up to you. She knew friends and family members who resorted to stealing or writing bad checks to get money for drugs. No matter how careful they were, the story always had the same ending. It was very much, she thought, like circling a drain. You were going down at some point. You just didn’t know when.”

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26. “Old people were so dumb about social media, but this time it was to his advantage.”

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27. “Cancer. And every day these women got up and did what they had to do because they were caregivers, wives, friends, mothers. There.”

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28. “What do you like to read?” she asked. “Everything,” I answered, a vague reply but true. I loved thrillers, ghost stories, and stories set in different cultures. I liked reading about anyone who had an interesting life, from women who dressed up as men to fight in the Civil War, to the guy who invented Q-tips. If nothing else was available, I read junk mail and the backs of cereal boxes.”

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29. “If Amy had gone with her to Magnificent Nutrition that morning, she would have confronted Dawn right from the start, whereas Sharon didn’t say anything until Dawn had insulted and threatened Niki. Two different ways to be strong.”

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30. “It was starting to feel like one of those vivid dreams that seem real when you first open your eyes, but fade the longer you’re awake. I didn’t have too much time to think about it, though, since I needed to get my stuff together and head for school. As the day progressed, I somehow managed to put it out of my mind. Until last hour when I had science with Mr. Specter.”

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31. “I always thought pointillism was a metaphor for life. When you’re too close to something, you lack perspective. It’s only once you have some distance that you see things the way they really are.”

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32. “God gives people money to see what they do with it.”

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33. “How would they locate a child they knew nothing about?”

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34. “Just saying the words and knowing you were heard. Sometimes that was all it took. Joe said, “I didn’t really bring him to you, but you’re welcome.”

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35. “John’s mother often said the most successful people lived a life of passion and service to others, something he hadn’t quite fully grasped until that moment.”

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36. “I’ve long believed that no one should be judged on the worst thing they’ve ever done. And not on the best thing either, for that matter.” She sighed. “Human beings are much more complex than one event that happened on one day in a very long life.”

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