Life Quotes

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

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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Petrarch
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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Petrarch
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"A life without passion is merely existence; passion without purpose is chaos."
Ramalho Ortigão
"To live without purpose is to exist without meaning."
Torquato Tasso
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"The worst battle is between what one knows and what one does."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"The quality of a life depends on the sum of its moments."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"A man who cannot feel emotion is not truly alive."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth of meaning."
Torquato Tasso
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"A vida é uma jornada, não um destino."
Almeida Garrett
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"A vida é melhor quando compartilhada com outros."
Almeida Garrett
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"Life is a journey through disappointments and small moments of grace."
Eça de Queirós
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"The human heart is an unfathomable mystery."
Eça de Queirós
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"Desire is the engine of both progress and destruction."
Eça de Queirós
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"We are dying, all of us are dying, and we can only affect the speed - but when we truly accept this, we can finally live."
Saramago
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"To be human is to be perpetually becoming."
Saramago
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Luís de Camões
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"Life without love is merely existence."
Luís de Camões
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"Life is a precious gift to be cherished."
Luís de Camões
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"A life of meaning requires resistance to the comfortable mediocrity offered by convention."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"Life is the art of making peace with paradox."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"A beleza da vida está em suas contradições."
Ramalho Ortigão
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"A person's life is written not in stone, but in water."
Saramago
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"We are haunted by the ghosts of our own choices."
Saramago
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"The mask we wear in public is often more real than our true face."
Saramago
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"We live in the space between what we desire and what we accept."
Saramago
"In the pursuit of perfection, we often lose sight of what truly matters."
Torquato Tasso
"The greatest tragedy is to live without ever truly living."
Torquato Tasso
"Life is a story we write with our choices, not our circumstances."
Torquato Tasso
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"In the garden of life, we are both the gardener and the seed."
Almeida Garrett
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"Life is a canvas; the colors we use are drawn from our experiences and choices."
Almeida Garrett