Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"What matters is not how long we live but how well we live."Julian of Norwich
"The blessed life is one lived in constant awareness of God's presence."Julian of Norwich
"Sadness is a passage from a greater to a lesser perfection."Spinoza
"Sorrow is the transition from greater to lesser being."Spinoza
"Reality is the activity of being; passivity is the diminishment of being."Spinoza
"Life is beautiful if you know how to live it."Mother Teresa
"Abortion is the killing of a human being by the mother herself."Mother Teresa
"The culture of comfort makes us think only of ourselves."Pope Francis
"Every life is sacred and precious."Pope Francis
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"You are the universe experiencing itself."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Life is a gift to be cherished and celebrated."Mother Teresa
"A life not lived for others is not a life."Mother Teresa
"To live is to serve; to serve is to love."Mother Teresa
"Life itself is the greatest teacher if we approach it with humility."Pope Francis
"All suffering comes from attachment to what cannot be held."Meister Eckhart
"Life is a journey from forgetting to remembering who we truly are."Meister Eckhart
"Every person has the right to life from conception to natural death."Pope John Paul II
"The culture of death must be transformed into a culture of life."Pope John Paul II
"The gift of life is the greatest miracle."Pope John Paul II
"We are not moving toward some goal. We ARE the goal, and the journey is the point."Hafiz
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."Hafiz
"I am in love with this world. Even all its pain."Hafiz
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."Mother Teresa
"The purpose of our life is to grow in love and share it with others."Mother Teresa
"Every life has infinite worth and dignity."Pope Francis
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."Dalai Lama (14th)
"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives."Dalai Lama (14th)
"The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness."Dalai Lama (14th)