Life Quotes

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

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"We are the sum of our influences."
Robertson Davies
"What is the purpose of life? To gather experiences."
Robertson Davies
"In the end, we are our choices."
Robertson Davies
"The best things in life are not acquired through effort alone."
Robertson Davies
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"Every person carries universes within them."
Seán Ó Faoláin
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Frank O'Connor
"Life's greatest lessons often come from our deepest struggles."
Frank O'Connor
"Life is too short to waste on regret."
Frank O'Connor
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"We are the choices we make."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"I often wonder what I will become when I grow up."
Sean O'Casey
S
"A man's as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks – but neither should complain."
Sean O'Casey
"Your parents can't save you from your own future."
Douglas Coupland
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Margaret Atwood
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"Every person contains multitudes."
Margaret Atwood
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you."
Brendan Behan
B
"The greatest tragedy is a life unlived."
Brendan Behan
"The true object of all human life is play."
Robertson Davies
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
Robertson Davies
"Life is much shorter than it appears when you are living it."
Robertson Davies
J
"We are dying, one and all of us, and I would be foolish to ignore it—but neither can I let it paralyze me."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"We are the sum total of our choices."
Joyce Carol Oates
J
"To be alive is to participate in tragedy."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
Harper Lee
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"It's like we're carrying around all our worldly possessions on our backs, isn't it?"
Harper Lee
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"All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Harper Lee
"I think that being middle-aged is different now."
Douglas Coupland
"We're all defined by our limitations."
Douglas Coupland
"We're all characters in a story we're constantly rewriting."
Douglas Coupland