Top 200 R. J. Palacio Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.”

— R. J. Palacio

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2. “Just follow the day and reach for the sun!”

— R. J. Palacio

3. “I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”

— R. J. Palacio

4. “When given the choice between being right and being kind. Choose kind.”

— R. J. Palacio

5. “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”

— R. J. Palacio

6. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Ian Maclaren.”

— R. J. Palacio

7. “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. – John Wesley’s Rule.”

— R. J. Palacio

8. “Learning who you are is what you’re here to do.”

— R. J. Palacio

9. “One mistake does not define you.”

— R. J. Palacio

10. “It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”

— R. J. Palacio

11. “Now that I look back, I don’t know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.”

— R. J. Palacio

12. “Your deeds are your monuments.”

— R. J. Palacio

13. “We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”

— R. J. Palacio

14. “Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”

— R. J. Palacio

15. “Fortune favors the bold.”

— R. J. Palacio

16. “Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams.”

— R. J. Palacio

17. “Sometimes you don’t have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.”

— R. J. Palacio

18. “Sometimes it’s good to start over.”

— R. J. Palacio

19. “Auggie. You are a wonder.”

— R. J. Palacio

20. “Hey, I’m an upstander – not a bystander!”

— R. J. Palacio

21. “The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average – though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”

— R. J. Palacio

22. “Look with kindness and you will always find wonder.”

— R. J. Palacio

23. “Sometimes it’s good to start over. – Julian Albans.”

— R. J. Palacio

24. “Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.”

— R. J. Palacio

25. “Some things you just can’t explain. You don’t even try. You don’t know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.”

— R. J. Palacio

26. “Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.”

— R. J. Palacio

27. “Just follow the day and reach for the sun! – The Polyphonic Spree, “Light and Day.”

— R. J. Palacio

28. “Everyone should always have a standing ovation at least once in their life.”

— R. J. Palacio

29. “A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we’ve done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the future.”

— R. J. Palacio

30. “In these dark times, it’s those small acts of kindness that keep us alive, after all. They remind us of our humanity” -Vivienne.”

— R. J. Palacio

31. “Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.”

— R. J. Palacio

32. “We carry within us the wonders we seek around us.”

— R. J. Palacio

33. “My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”

— R. J. Palacio

34. “Okay, so I admit that the first day of school I was so nervous that the butterflies in my stomach were more like pigeons flying around my insides.”

— R. J. Palacio

35. “You don’t need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.”

— R. J. Palacio

36. “AUGUST IS THE Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.”

— R. J. Palacio

37. “I agree, sometimes it’s good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we’ve done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the way we move forward. If we don’t examine the past, we don’t learn from it.”

— R. J. Palacio

38. “No, no, it’s not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn’t. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can’t see.”

— R. J. Palacio

39. “There are always going to be jerks in the world, Auggie,” she said, looking at me. “But I really believe, and Daddy really believes, that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.”

— R. J. Palacio

40. “We can’t just be friends when it’s convenient. Good friendships are worth a little extra effort!”

— R. J. Palacio

41. “Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.”

— R. J. Palacio

42. “I think it’s like the Cheese Touch in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The kids in that story were afraid they’d catch the cooties if they touched the old moldy cheese on the basketball court. At Beecher Prep, I’m the old moldy cheese.”

— R. J. Palacio

43. “No basta con ser amigable. Tienes que ser un amigo.”

— R. J. Palacio

44. “Don’t be friends with jerks.”

— R. J. Palacio

45. “And far away, like in another world, we could hear Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.”

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46. “Quando tiver que escolher entre estar certo e ser gentil, escolha ser gentil.”

— R. J. Palacio

47. “That’s how it is in heaven. It’s just love, and no one forgets who they love.”

— R. J. Palacio

48. “I forgot that I might see So many beautiful things I forgot that I might need To find out what life could bring.”

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49. “I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don’t understand explain things you can’t understand.”

— R. J. Palacio

50. “If you don’t know what to do, just be kind. You can’t go wrong.”

— R. J. Palacio