Top 100 Wendy Mass Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

— Wendy Mass

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2. “They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”

— Wendy Mass

3. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”

— Wendy Mass

4. “The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn’t matter how others see you.”

— Wendy Mass

5. “You never know, life is short but it’s wide.”

— Wendy Mass

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6. “There’s a fight going on inside of everyone between a good wolf and a bad wolf, but the one you feed is the one who wins.”

— Wendy Mass

7. “I’m going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”

— Wendy Mass

8. “I’ve learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world.”

— Wendy Mass

9. “When people see you’re happy doing what you’re doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

— Wendy Mass

10. “Life is short, have dessert first.”

— Wendy Mass

11. “Maybe some things aren’t meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.”

— Wendy Mass

12. “The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.”

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13. “Wherever you end up, I wish you clear skies. Always.”

— Wendy Mass

14. “Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can’t contain me anymore. After all, I’ve got a whole new world to see.”

— Wendy Mass

15. “Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.”

— Wendy Mass

16. “I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i’m not already there.”

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17. “The jewel in the crown.”

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18. “My sweat smells like peanut-butter.”

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19. “The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you’re doing it.”

— Wendy Mass

20. “I’m going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”

— Wendy Mass

21. “I am not plain, or average or – God forbid – vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”

— Wendy Mass

22. “A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”

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23. “Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.”

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24. “Without the color, I don’t know how to proceed. I’m lost in shades of gray.”

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25. “I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was ‘Life is short; eat dessert first.’ How can I argue with that?”

— Wendy Mass

26. “All those people in their black-and-white worlds – they have no idea what they’re missing.”

— Wendy Mass

27. “It’s not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”

— Wendy Mass

28. “Sometimes the universe, it wants us to pause for a moment. To reflect on what’s happening in our lives.”

— Wendy Mass

29. “I’ve learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you’ll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”

— Wendy Mass

30. “Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that’s not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”

— Wendy Mass

31. “When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I’d be someone’s wife, then someone’s mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”

— Wendy Mass

32. “Sometimes the best things look the strangest.”

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33. “The people on the train with me don’t know it, but in my head I’m dancing.”

— Wendy Mass

34. “If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”

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35. “If I can’t figure out why I’m here, then I’m just taking up space.”

— Wendy Mass

36. “Because that’s all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.”

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37. “My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.”

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38. “Always keep your eyes open. Don’t block your own sunshine. Be filled with wonder.”

— Wendy Mass

39. “I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, “I’m sparkling,” you’ll have a whole different energy and experience.”

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40. “The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive. But that’s all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.”

— Wendy Mass

41. “And why is an orange the only fruit that has to share its name with its color? A banana isn’t called yellow. It’s not fair. If I were an orange, I would complain.”

— Wendy Mass

42. “After all, they’d be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.”

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43. “May you fall from the top of the Chrysler Building and may people lean out their windows and hit you on the head with a baseball bat as you go by.”

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44. “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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45. “I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”

— Wendy Mass

46. “Lean back, tighten abs, keep arms locked, look for a place to land my hands.”

— Wendy Mass

47. “You won’t get what you want, Rory Swenson, until you see what you need.”

— Wendy Mass

48. “There is a certain timelessness to closets.”

— Wendy Mass

49. “I open my eyes and stare at the page. I see the black letters. But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. I can’t say I’m surprised.”

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50. “Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”

— Wendy Mass