Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Life's too short to hold grudges."Mike Royko
"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."Mike Royko
"The worst thing about getting old is not losing your youth, but discovering you've never really used it."Russell Baker
"Life is the only experience most of us will ever have that resembles the reading of a good novel."Russell Baker
"Regret is the worst of emotions - it is the only one that cannot teach us anything."Russell Baker
"The only thing more overrated than youth is the wisdom of age."Russell Baker
"Every life contains a multitude of contradictions, and that's what makes us human."Russell Baker
"The comfort of the familiar is often the prison of the possible."Russell Baker
"The most interesting lives are those lived in contradiction."Russell Baker
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."Ann Landers
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man can be profoundly unhappy and still be a great man."Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Human beings must breathe."Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man's life has a beginning and an end in time."Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The valley spirit never dies; it is the woman of the mystery."Lao Tzu
"The meaning of life is simply to live it."Lao Tzu
"It's not the situation, but whether we react negatively or positively to it that is important."Dear Abby
"It's much harder to be pleasant when you're missing a meal than when you're missing a museum."Dear Abby
"Some people treat life as a means to an end, always thinking about tomorrow."Dear Abby
"Age is relative only in your relation to it."Dear Abby
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."Dear Abby
"The misery of mankind is so great that a man may almost boast if he is not unhappy."Blaise Pascal
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."Blaise Pascal
"The trouble with life is that it is so daily."Blaise Pascal
"A life well-lived is one where you've made other people's lives better."Jimmy Breslin
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."Mike Royko
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."Lao Tzu
"The art of living well is knowing when to advance and when to retreat."Lao Tzu
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."Wallace Matthews
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."Wallace Matthews