Life Quotes

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

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"We spend our youth preparing for adulthood, only to realize adulthood is merely grown-up youth."
Russell Baker
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"The gap between what we know we should do and what we actually do is where most of life happens."
Russell Baker
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"The person who seems to have it all together is usually just better at hiding their chaos."
Russell Baker
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"You can't write about life if you haven't lived it yourself."
Jimmy Breslin
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"Without narrative, life falls apart. We are creatures of story."
Bill Moyers
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"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter."
Bill Moyers
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"The stories we tell about ourselves become the lives we live."
Bill Moyers
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"The mystery of life is not solved but lived."
Bill Moyers
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"Life is full of surprises. Some good, some not so good."
Andy Rooney
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"We're all going to die, so we might as well enjoy life."
Andy Rooney
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"I've learned that life is what you make of it."
Andy Rooney
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"We're all looking for something in life, and sometimes we find it."
Andy Rooney
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"We spend most of our lives trying to be someone we're not."
Andy Rooney
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"We're all trying to figure it out as we go."
Andy Rooney
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"I think the most important thing is to live authentically."
Andy Rooney
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"The truth about life is that it's complicated."
Andy Rooney
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"We all struggle, that's what makes us human."
Andy Rooney
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"I believe that life is worth living."
Andy Rooney
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"We waste our lives on things that don't fulfill us."
Andy Rooney
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"The truth is life is a journey, not a destination."
Andy Rooney
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Fred Rogers
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"The value of a life is measured by the difference it makes in others' lives."
Walter Mondale
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"To be remembered well, we must live well today."
Walter Mondale
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"Our legacy is not what we accumulate, but what we contribute."
Walter Mondale
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"To serve others is to find the deepest meaning in life."
Walter Mondale
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"Life is about the journey, not just the destination."
Gayle King
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Mike Wallace
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Mike Wallace
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Mike Wallace
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"We are not born knowing who we are; we discover it through living."
Bill Moyers