Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Only you know what your relationship is with God, and you should never let anyone take that from you.”

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52. “I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.”

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53. “Love was a funny thing, Peter thought. You grow up thinking you will have some control over it – when you will fall in love, who you will fall in love with. But then life surprises you out of nowhere, and you fall in love when the world is falling apart.”

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54. “But if we want to defeat darkness, we must find our own way to the light. We have to follow our hearts and accept the danger. I.”

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55. “I am a big believer that in life, things happen the way they are supposed to.”

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56. “France may have turned her back. But did that mean that Eva could do the same when lives hung in the balance?”

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57. “Because books bring us to another time and place,” the woman said as she handed over Eva’s pens and accepted the francs Eva gave her. “And you look as if you need that.”

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58. “You can only look forward in life. You can change the future, but not the past.”

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59. “I used to think that memories were less painful when you held them close. I think perhaps that isn’t true though. Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.”

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60. “Lives are circles spinning across the world, and when they’re meant to intersect again, they do. There’s nothing we can do to stop it.”

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61. “You do honor her – and me – every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.”

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62. “Do you know what else this very wise person told me?” he asks. “She said that we’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. And I believe, Mrs. Abrams, that you chose to be a hero, even if you don’t see it that way.” He.”

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63. “We all come into this world with our fate unwritten, Yona. Your identity isn’t determined by your birth. All that matters is what we make ourselves into, what we choose to do with our lives.” Forest of Vanishing Stars.”

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64. “It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.”

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65. “Vy moshennitsa?”

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66. “I’m broken, too. But sometimes it’s the jagged edges that allow us to fit together. Sometimes it’s the breaks that make us strong.”

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67. “You can’t always change other people’s minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can’t you?”

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68. “We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”

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69. “Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.”

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70. “Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.”

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71. “One must never question God, Jerusza had always told her. It is our job on earth only to seek to understand him, never to doubt his will.”

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72. “I know it’s sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn’t it better than believing the worst, though?”

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73. “You can’t rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.”

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74. “I am not sure about anything. But if we don’t have hope, we don’t have anything.”

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75. “But maybe it shouldn’t be. Perhaps they need only know whether you are kind, decent, capable, well-intentioned. It is within your own heart that you find God. And we all walk our own path toward him. Don’t we?”

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76. “You do not have to love everything about a place to carry it in your heart.”

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77. “Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.”

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78. “Be nice if at all possible. It’s such simple advice, but if we can all do that, every day, maybe we can be the change. Maybe we can stand together. Maybe we can build the world a better future. Here’s to lighting a candle, or a piece of wood, in the darkness – and.”

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79. “In the times of greatest darkness, the light always shines through, because there are people who stand up to do brave, decent things.”

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80. “Every time a good soul dies, I think the world gets a little darker.”

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81. “In life, my dear, you must actually go after what you want. You can’t rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.”

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82. “Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.” “But what if I don’t want to be Jewish?”

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83. “It’s never too late to find true love,” he says, locking eyes with me. “You just have to keep your heart open.”

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84. “One’s reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.”

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85. “Life gets complicated. Circumstance tears us apart. Decisions guide our fate. But your heart will always show you true north.”

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86. “Hope, you can’t go through life living by all the rules and doing what people expect of you without thinking for yourself, you know? That’s how you wake up at the age of eighty or whatever and realize life has passed you by.”

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87. “There are truly terrible people in this world.” Ruby pulled Charlotte into a hug. “But there are good people too. And I like to think that.”

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88. “But if there’s one thing I’ve learned since the start of the war, it’s that as long as we believe, we take our faith with us, whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.”

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89. “Books change the world, I think.”

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90. “It’s the cracks in us that make us who we are, Zus had said, and perhaps he’d been right. When a linden tree broke, it often grew back, stronger and more beautiful in its damaged places. What if the same was true for man?”

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91. “Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.”

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92. “This isn’t a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It’s about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.”

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93. “The only thing that remained was the only thing that mattered: love – the kind that could be found in the darkness when all pretenses had disappeared, the kind born of pain and despair and hope, the kind that was a shelter in the storm.”

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94. “This is where the war in Europe ended, on May 7, at 2:41 in the morning.” “Wait, World War II ended here? In Reims?”

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95. “The universe is always in balance, she said – summer and winter, day and night, sustenance and poison, good and evil. To know the light, you must also know the darkness.”

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96. “Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;.”

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97. “Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.”

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98. “But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. “By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.”

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99. “Yes, but mine were never as good as yours.” She could feel his smile against her cheek as she whispered into his ear. “I admit it now. So I am glad you are here with your documents.” He paused and added, ‘Well, actually, I am simply glad you are here.”

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100. “Someone who sees her reflection in the words.”

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