Life Quotes

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

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"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
Christian Dior
"Dressing is a way of life."
Christian Dior
"One cannot be both fashionable and comfortable."
Christian Dior
C
"Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once."
Coco Chanel
C
"It's not tragedy that kills us, it's the mediocrity in life."
Coco Chanel
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Lorenzo de Medici
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Lorenzo de Medici
A
"Each instrument must breathe as a living thing."
Antonio Stradivari
A
"Each day I die a little, and each violin births me anew."
Antonio Stradivari
I
"In every human being lies the capacity for greatness waiting to be awakened."
Ismail Merchant
C
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
Cosimo Medici
C
"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."
Cosimo Medici
G
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Giovanni Medici
G
"In the tapestry of life, even the darkest threads add to the pattern's beauty."
Giovanni Medici
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Lorenzo de Medici
"In life, we often receive exactly what we expect to receive."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
Lorenzo de Medici
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Lorenzo de Medici
C
"A life without reflection is a life half-lived."
Cosimo Medici
C
"I love living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all still there is that which I love living."
Coco Chanel
C
"Life is not a dress rehearsal."
Coco Chanel
C
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
Coco Chanel
C
"The most precious thing in life is not what you have, it's who you are."
Coco Chanel
C
"You live only once; but if you do it right, once is enough."
Coco Chanel
"A man's life is measured by the breadth of his vision and the depth of his character."
Charles Yerkes
"The greatest threat to our well-being is the absence of purpose and meaningful engagement with life."
Lorenzo de Medici
J
"The man who hoards his wealth fears death more than he enjoys life."
Jacob Fugger