Top 40 Maddie Dawson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are enough, just the way you are – do you hear me?”

— Maddie Dawson

2. “Whatever happens, love that.”

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3. “No one, no one, loves me the way I want to be loved. No one loves the whole me.”

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4. “Everything always works out in the end. And if it didn’t work out yet, then it isn’t the end.”

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5. “Nothing good has ever happened at three in the morning. It’s the hour of terrible thoughts.”

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6. “Our blood and the sea have the same pH.”

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7. “Words are a good first step. They have a lot of power. You can summon things by believing in them. First you visualize them being true, and then they come true.”

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8. “You need to forget what society has told you about life and expectations, and don’t let anybody make you pretend. You are enough, just the way you are – do you hear me? You have many gifts. Many, many gifts.”

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9. “And how many times do I have to tell you? Whatever happens, love that. Because maybe, just maybe, everything is perfect.”

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10. “I shouldn’t have come, and that’s the truth of it. It’s not even five o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m already fantasizing about a swift, painless coma. Something dramatic, involving a nice collapse to the floor, with my eyes rolling back in their sockets and my limbs shaking.”

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11. “My own heart, given away to Noah, now stirs somewhere deep down, stretches, yawns, looks at its watch and rolls over, tries to go back to sleep. But it has one eye open, I notice.”

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12. “We are all vibrational beings in physical bodies, and thoughts actually become reality so you have to make sure you’re thinking about what you want and not about what you don’t want.”

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13. “I think she’s kind of enjoying being furious with her ex for now, if you want to know the truth. It’s hard to make room for love when anger still feels so good.”

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14. “You need a mantra to help you. You can borrow mine, if you want: ‘Whatever happens, love that.”

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15. “When I brush against him, several of my more alert cells notice that he’s something we all once liked. They have conveniently and traitorously forgotten that we are not Team Noah anymore. We are Team Jeremy.”

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16. “The subversive truth about love is that it really is the big deal everyone makes it out to be, and it’s not some form of security or an insurance policy against loneliness. It’s everything, love is. It runs the whole universe.”

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17. “I want to stop thinking of pain as a problem I have to solve.”

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18. “We are all broken, I say to him. And we all still have to dance.”

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19. “Ah, love. Why does it have to get all convoluted?”

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20. “People tell you who they really are, if you listen and pay attention.”

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21. “I walked around on the alert for love. I was an appreciator of people’s best moments.”

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22. “Don’t settle for anything you don’t want. That’s the main thing.”

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23. “Then he has about fifty things that require sniffing and some items he has to stop and chew, like a candy wrapper and a piece of somebody’s shoe. I take these things away from him and he briefly considers whether we know each other well enough for me to take those kinds of liberties.”

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24. “We never got married because I’ve finally learned that if you have to bring the law into your personal relationships, then you’re doing it wrong.”

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25. “She has the kind of hair that should ensure its owner’s perfect lifetime happiness.”

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26. “This baby didn’t come from romance, it turns out. It came from somebody forgetting to put a condom back on and now he’s very, very sorry about that lapse.”

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27. “She said that belonging was just a state of mind. That you had to create it yourself.”

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28. “Sometimes when you’re moving from the old to the new, the universe likes to remind you who’s in charge by spinning your tires on ice and then throwing a toilet at your head.”

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29. “She had a mantra she lent me. I pinch my fingers and say it over and over again: Whatever happens, love that.”

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30. “People have such sad lives. And you have to make your own life. Every day you get to start over anyway, work on your own story.”

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31. “People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too – and we were all just doing our best.”

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32. “When you miss somebody really, really bad, all you have to do is think of them, and if you think hard enough, they’ll feel it and they’ll start thinking about you, too. Like if you sing them a song, your voice will travel up into space and find their voice singing it right back to you.”

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33. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens,” I say to him. “Rumi said that.”

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34. “I know, that, as stupid as it sounds, sometimes you have to live alongside the things you don’t want, like cancer, and doing that helps you go deeper into life than you’ve ever gone before. If we all lived forever, I tell him, then life really wouldn’t have any meaning. So why not embrace it, prepare for it, love what is?”

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35. “Be open to what doesn’t seem possible, and you will be amazed what can happen.”

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36. “When you’re an old woman, you can reach over and touch people since you’re harmless and invisible most of the time.”

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37. “There is so much fear to wade through before you get to love.”

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38. “Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”

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39. “I don’t want to be burned and slashed and poisoned in the interest of “getting better.”

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40. “You’re going to get everything you want. Just trust in the universe.”

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41. “Whenever anything scared the living daylights our of me, that was a sign to me that I needed to throw myself into it. Ana you know what else? That’s how I’ve lived my whole life, doing whatever scares me.”

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42. “I’ve made friends with it because I don’t believe in that whole battle metaphor for disease.”

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43. “I’ve made nice with trouble my whole life, and I’ve noticed that what happens is that problems just curl right up like declawed kittens and nestle at your feet and fall asleep.”

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44. “Life is what you make it. See yourself as a victim, and that’s how it will always be.”

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45. “It’s hard to make room for love when anger still feels so good.”

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46. “The marriage counselor said that sometimes we tell ourselves a little story, and we just hold on to it until it feels like it has to be true, and we can’t switch out of it.”

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47. “The full moon will wake you up if you sleep in the front bedroom. Still, that’s the room I recommend. It’s the best because you will hear the sounds of the outside world, and that will keep you grounded and sane.”

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48. “That’s how I’ve lived my whole life, doing whatever scares me.”

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49. “Ever since I made up my mind to live the way I wanted to live, I’ve been provided for.”

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