Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Life is only meaningful if you find meaning in it."Douglas Coupland
"Life is just a bunch of moments strung together."Douglas Coupland
"You cannot live at all if you do not live fully now."Seamus Heaney
"We live in language the way we live in air."Seamus Heaney
"I'm Irish. I have to be able to talk about things to make them seem better."Brendan Behan
"I wish I'd been a round man all my life, instead of the angular bastard I am."Brendan Behan
"I am bored with it all."Brendan Behan
"I think the worst sin is to be boring."Brendan Behan
"Life's beauty lies in its refusal to be what we planned for it to be."Christy Brown
"My autobiography is the longest conversation I've had with myself about being human."Christy Brown
"The world is full of people looking for extraordinary lives while living ordinary ones."Sean O'Casey
"Life is not a rehearsal; it is the real performance."Sean O'Casey
"The man who has no problems is not living; he is merely existing."Sean O'Casey
"The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to be meaningful."Sean O'Casey
"We are not the sum of our parts, but the whole of our being."Sean O'Casey
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."Frank O'Connor
"I write to prove that life is worth living, even when living is difficult."Christy Brown
"We are all creatures of habit, and our habits are the invisible architecture of our lives."Seán Ó Faoláin
"A life fully lived requires both roots and wings."Seán Ó Faoláin
"I think anybody over 40 has earned the right to be a little bit strange."Douglas Coupland
"Your past is just a story you keep telling yourself."Douglas Coupland
"We're all living in an extended adolescence now; the question is whether we'll ever grow up."Douglas Coupland
"Life has a way of making the important seem unimportant and vice versa."Brendan Behan
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world."Brendan Behan
"The world will break your heart."Brendan Behan
"The greatest tragedy is a wasted life."Brendan Behan
"We're the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, revised every day."Margaret Atwood
"Life is too short for regrets."Margaret Atwood
"The world is full of people looking for spectacular experiences when often the most human experiences are the quiet, simple ones."Robertson Davies
"Be not another, if you can be yourself."Robertson Davies