Life Quotes

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

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"The mind is a garden; what we plant, we shall harvest."
Guru Nanak
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"Human birth is rare; waste it not in idle pursuits."
Guru Nanak
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"Life is a test of character and integrity."
Guru Nanak
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Abraham
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Abraham
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Abraham
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Abraham
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Abraham
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Abraham
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"Life's deepest satisfaction comes from service to others and to God."
Martin Luther
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"The greatest legacy one can leave is a life lived with conviction and integrity."
Martin Luther
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"Believers are not exempt from the common diseases and calamities of life."
John Calvin
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"To live for others is the highest calling of mankind."
John Calvin
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"A life lived without purpose is a life half-lived."
John Calvin
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"In the garden of the soul, weeds are pulled by remembrance."
Guru Nanak
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"The mirror reflects what is before it; so too does the heart reflect the divine."
Guru Nanak
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"The pages of life are written with both joy and sorrow; both are necessary ink."
Guru Nanak
"Choose life, that you and your offspring may live."
Moses
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"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."
Abraham
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"The human form is obtained after millions of lives."
Guru Nanak
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"The stream of life flows to the ocean of eternity."
Guru Nanak
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"The purpose of life is to glorify God and serve Him faithfully."
John Calvin
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"The richer and fuller a man's life, the more enemies he will have."
Martin Luther
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"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief visit, for what purpose he hardly knows."
Martin Luther
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
Martin Luther
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"The glory of the world passes away."
Martin Luther
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"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."
Martin Luther
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"A man's life may matter but not his memory."
Martin Luther
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"Good thoughts, good words, good deeds - these are the path to perfection."
Zoroaster
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"The paradox of life is that in giving it away, we truly keep it; in losing it, we find it."
Saint Peter