Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Study atoms to understand your own nature."
Leucippus
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"Life is the complex arrangement of simple atoms."
Leucippus
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"Life and mind arise from atomic arrangements."
Leucippus
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"What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived."
Herodotus
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"The beauty of life is its very uncertainty."
Herodotus
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Herodotus
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"I have loved, and in loving, I have lived fully."
Sappho
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"I am because I love; I love because I am."
Sappho
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow with equal grace."
Sappho
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"Life is the sum of the moments we truly felt alive."
Sappho
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"Function is the proof of life."
Hippocrates
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"To live long, one must believe in the goodness of life."
Hippocrates
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"That which is used develops, that which is not used wastes away."
Hippocrates
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"Life is not merely to live, but to live well and healthily."
Hippocrates
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"We are born knowing nothing, and leave the world knowing little more."
Xenophanes
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"Life is a journey of discovery, not a destination."
Xenophanes
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"A life lived in service to others is a life lived in its fullest expression."
Pindar
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"To live is to choose; to choose wisely is to live with purpose and grace."
Pindar
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."
Aesop
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"Necessity is a hard master, but a wise teacher."
Aesop
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"Pride precedes a fall as surely as night follows day."
Aesop
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"The lamp that shines the brightest burns itself out fastest."
Aesop
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"The greatest monument is a life well-lived."
Aesop
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"The forest is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds."
Aesop
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"We are all temporary arrangements of eternal atoms."
Leucippus
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"What we call life is the temporary organization of matter."
Leucippus
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"What we call birth is the beginning of a temporary arrangement of atoms."
Leucippus
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"What fades most quickly is often what we treasure most"
Sappho
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"The body ages, but the spirit may grow ever young"
Sappho
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"What gives life meaning is not its length, but its depth"
Sappho