Life Quotes

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

22520 quotes

"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come."
Moses
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"The life well-lived is measured not by years, but by the difference made."
Abraham
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"Who loves not wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long."
Martin Luther
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"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."
Martin Luther
"The legacy you leave is written in the hearts of those you touched."
Moses
B
"Attachment is the root of suffering."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"The root of suffering is attachment."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
S
"To deny oneself and follow Christ is to gain everything worth having."
Saint Peter
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"The greatest commandment is not to be obeyed, but to be lived, to be embodied."
Saint Peter
S
"Eternal life begins not after death, but in the moment of genuine faith."
Saint Peter
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"Seek not comfort, but purpose; not ease, but meaning."
Saint Peter
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"Life is a marathon, not a sprint."
Amy Poehler
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"Life is pretty interesting without being too hard."
Amy Poehler
A
"Life is what you make it."
Amy Poehler
A
"In the garden of life, the weeds often teach us more than the flowers."
Abraham
A
"The legacy we leave is written in the lives we touch."
Abraham
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"Be ambitious. But understand that life is the long game."
Tina Fey
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"I'm at an age where I would really like to be settled."
Tina Fey
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"Real life is the long game."
Tina Fey
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"What we plant in our thoughts today, we harvest in our lives tomorrow."
Zoroaster
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"The harvest of life is determined by the seeds of thought we cultivate daily."
Zoroaster
Z
"Every moment offers the choice to become slightly more or slightly less than yesterday."
Zoroaster
"Do not waste your days pursuing what glitters; seek instead what endures."
Moses
"A life well-lived is not measured in years, but in moments of genuine connection and purpose."
Moses
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"It hurts to be alive and to see waste."
Lenny Bruce
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"You're all on the same team, and the name of the game is survival."
Lenny Bruce
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"The days are long, but the decades are short."
Amy Poehler
"As a woman, I'm exhausted by the fact that we're not allowed to age."
Joan Rivers
"Life is extremely short and you can't waste it on things that don't make you happy."
Joan Rivers