Life Quotes

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

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"To live deliberately is to live with purpose and intention."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The greatest riches are those that cannot be stolen or lost."
James Fenimore Cooper
"A life without purpose is a ship without a rudder."
James Fenimore Cooper
"To be remembered is to have truly lived."
James Fenimore Cooper
"In the tapestry of life, each thread, however humble, has its place and purpose."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Every moment of joy contains the seed of sorrow."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The ghost of what we were haunts what we are."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The greatest tragedy is unlived potential."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I am the product of my sorrows."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The bustle in a house the morning after death."
Emily Dickinson
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"The journey matters more than the destination when lived fully."
Emily Dickinson
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"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."
Washington Irving
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Mark Twain
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
"The art of successful living lies not in doing what you like but in liking what you do."
Mark Twain
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"Man's life is but an hour-glass, and we must make each grain of sand count."
Herman Melville
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"The human heart is the most uncharted territory on Earth."
Herman Melville
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"Life is made up of marble and mud."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"One thing has not changed: human nature."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I have lived enough to satisfy myself that life is a terrible thing, and that we know nothing of futurity."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The individual is the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of life is the expansion of consciousness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The human race is drawn toward the locations and entities that offer it pleasurable sensations."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline