Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."Demosthenes
"Get busy living or get busy dying."Demosthenes
"You are the sum total of your choices."Demosthenes
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."Demosthenes
"We do not choose the time of our birth, but we choose how we shall live."Leonidas I
"Today we feast, tomorrow we fight—such is the way of warriors."Leonidas I
"To truly live is to live for something greater than oneself."Leonidas I
"Life finds its meaning in the endless quest for understanding."Aristarchus
"Life is the raw material from which we sculpt meaning."Isocrates
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in idleness."Pericles
"To live with purpose is to live with meaning."Pericles
"To live fully is to embrace both reason and nature."Galen
"A life lived in service to others is the only life truly worth living."Pericles
"Life is not a race, but a journey."Xenophon
"To live is to choose, and to choose is to accept responsibility."Xenophon
"Suffering is the price of admission to life."Hippocrates
"A man who does not know when to die will never know how to live."Hippocrates
"The real evils of life are such as to make people wish for death."Thucydides
"The greatest enemies are our own treacherous desires."Thucydides
"The great king of Sparta knows that life is not measured by the number of our days, but by the deeds and impacts of those days."Thucydides
"What we leave behind is not as important as how we live."Thucydides
"To do something noble is better than to live long."Thucydides
"Understanding the body's harmony is understanding life itself."Galen
"Every illness carries within it a lesson for life."Galen
"Health is a journey, not a destination."Galen
"The life well-lived is the life of purpose."Xenophon
"The journey matters more than the destination."Xenophon
"Men are made by their choices."Thucydides
"In the domain of human action, the element of chance remains forever."Thucydides
"The measure of a man is not his wealth but his character."Thucydides