Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.”

— Penny Reid

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2. “Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

— Penny Reid

3. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart.”

— Penny Reid

4. “You have your own room in my heart. It’s yours. Stay as long as you want; it will always be there for you.”

— Penny Reid

5. “You are my first thought in the morning, and my last thought before I go to sleep.”

— Penny Reid

6. “But love is the greatest adventure, where you risk the most for the greatest reward.”

— Penny Reid

7. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

— Penny Reid

8. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle.”

— Penny Reid

9. “You’re my beginning, middle, and end.”

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10. “Stay away from the normals, the small-minded people who fill their brains with small-minded pursuits, who blend in and keep up with the Joneses. Those people will tear you down and make you boring. Instead, surround yourself with the weirds. With the misfits, oddballs, and outcasts. Because the normals, bless their hearts, have no idea how to have fun.”

— Penny Reid

11. “I firmly believe we are all puzzle pieces, and no matter our shape, color, size, or level of neurocognitive diversity, there is another puzzle piece out there in the world, waiting to click with our own.”

— Penny Reid

12. “Begging your pardon, but I’m not just a secretary. I seriously, seriously despised it when people called secretaries and administrative professionals just a secretary. Being a secretary was a multitasking marathon, a daily gauntlet of making everyone happy all the time.”

— Penny Reid

13. “I suppose if the relationship is between two people who are keeping score, then you are right – there will be a winner and a loser. However, if no one is keeping score, then no one loses.”

— Penny Reid

14. “Take it like a woman?” I smiled at the way she’d modified the take it like a man turn of phrase. “Yes. I’ll accept responsibility, apologize, be sensitive to your concerns, work to modify my behavior in the future, and suggest we try to find a way forward with minimal awkwardness. You know, take it like a woman.”

— Penny Reid

15. “You’ll know one day, Cletus. You’ll discover what it’s like to find the other part of yourself. You’ll know it’s her, only her, always her. Maybe not right away, but eventually you’ll know. She’ll be your beginning, middle, and end. And your intentions won’t matter. Love brings its own intentions, and all other plans, hopes, and dreams fade to insignificance in the face of love.”

— Penny Reid

16. “Don’t Drink and DERIVE, Alcohol and Calculus Don’t Mix.”

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17. “May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift.”

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18. “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.” – Albert Einstein.”

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19. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – Edgar Allan Poe.”

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20. “Saying someone would make a great politician is like saying someone would make a great serial killer. It’s not a compliment.”

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21. “With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words.”

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22. “If you know who you are, rejection matters very little. It says more about the small-mindedness of the person who is doing the rejecting than it does about you.”

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23. “Be cool. Be cool and act cool. Be chill, act chill, be ice. You’re an ice cube. Just be cool.”

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24. “Have you ever read Bertrand Russell?” “No. Who is that?” “He was a mathematician. Anyway, he said, ‘Those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.’ I think that’s especially true with knowing oneself. As soon as you grow certain of something, you’ve closed your mind to other possibilities.”

— Penny Reid

25. “Tonight the silence sounds like a scream. If you were here, we could chase it away with our whispers. -.”

— Penny Reid

26. “Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave,” his father told him.”

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27. “Nothings lasts forever. Not a song, not happiness, not misery! Mere survival is no safer than living for hopes and dreams. At the end, there will always be the end! So why not dream? why not hope? Why not live life with wild faith and abandon? Why not take the risk? Otherwise all these moment: small or significant, heaven on earth, would be lost to fear.”

— Penny Reid

28. “Roosters need a purpose. If you don’t give a rooster a purpose, they make trouble.”

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29. “Time heals all wounds. Time is of the essence. Time is short. Time is on my side. Lies. All lies. Time is the enemy. Time was playing for the other team. Timed stretched like an endless desert. The only thing time does is stagger along like a drunk sailor and give you wrinkles. And syphilis.”

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30. “All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they’re virgins. Being a virgin doesn’t make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin.”

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31. “I admired him from afar, like a really amazing piece of art that you only see in photographs or behind glass in a museum. So we affectionately referred to him as Handsome McHotpants; more accurately, Elizabeth and I knighted him Sir Handsome McHotpants one night after drinking too many mojitos.”

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32. “You’ve seen me at my worst and you love me anyway. Give me the same chance. Show me who you are, and trust me to stay even if there are dark parts. But also, trust me to stay because of them.”

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33. “If you don’t want someone to get your goat, don’t let them know where it’s tied.”

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34. “I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours.”

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35. “We fit together like custom pieces from a two person puzzle. And therefore, you are exactly my perfect kind of nice.”

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36. “Pride is just another word for insecurity and fear.”

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37. “And I silently simmered in the chaos of my mind and heart.”

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38. “Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal.”

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39. “Nothing screams lady-mind-porn like a hot, shirtless, sexy man doing dishes after giving her a reason to be exhausted.”

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40. “Sure, but don’t expect great observations. Mostly I just looked for dirty pictures hidden within the artwork. Did you know Monet put a boob in all his paintings? Apples and Grapes – get it? I mean, come on. The guy was a horn-dog.”

— Penny Reid

41. “If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is a cage.” “But knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.”

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42. “Jennifer Sylvester wasn’t fierce. She was nuttier than a pecan pie. “Right.”

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43. “Maybe love, at its essence, is being a mirror for another person – for the good parts and the bad. Perhaps love is simply finding that one person who sees you clearly, cares for you deeply, challenges you and supports you, and subsequently helps you see and be your true self.”

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44. “Now that you’ve crushed this little man’s evil hopes and dreams, I imagine he has a hairless cat to stroke and a monologue to prepare.”

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45. “Settle your feathers, crusty britches.”

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46. “Love brings to light a lover’s noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.”

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47. “Quote of the day: “Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel it.”

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48. “Yes, she liked to get dressed up, but she called sorority girls “sorostitutes” and fraternity guys “fratilos.” She labeled them “group thinkers” and claimed they suffered from a herd mentality.”

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49. “All people are broken, Shelly. No one is perfect. Some seek help. Some don’t. But no one is ever fixed by another person. We can only work on ourselves. We are – using your analogy – our own refrigerators, no one else’s.”

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50. “Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time.”

— Penny Reid