Life Quotes

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

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"The sweetness of life lies in its brevity and uncertainty."
Laurence Sterne
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"In the end, all we have are the moments we have lived fully."
Laurence Sterne
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"To live fully is to embrace both light and shadow."
Ann Radcliffe
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Stendhal
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"The advantage of living is not measured by length but by use."
Stendhal
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."
Stendhal
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"We are dying from overthinking and under-feeling."
Stendhal
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"Life is a series of choices; choose wisely."
Frances Burney
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"Life is not what happens to us, but how we respond."
Frances Burney
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"A life lived with purpose is a life well lived."
Henry Fielding
"A man's whole life is a continued struggle with his nature."
Daniel Defoe
"Private life is the only genuine life."
Daniel Defoe
"We live and learn, but not the wiser for our living."
Daniel Defoe
"The good of life is its variety."
Daniel Defoe
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"May you live every day of your life."
Jonathan Swift
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Jonathan Swift
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Jonathan Swift
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"Grant me, O gracious Heaven! a middle state; so neither great nor mean."
Laurence Sterne
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"The world is not much indebted to originality in dress."
Laurence Sterne
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"In life, as in writing, a man must know when to end a sentence."
Laurence Sterne
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"A man's life is his legacy; he must write it carefully."
Laurence Sterne
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"The art of living well is the art of living simply."
Laurence Sterne
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"The greatest of all arts is the art of living a good life."
Laurence Sterne
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"The world is a book, and each man writes his own page upon it."
Laurence Sterne
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"The human heart desires both security and mystery in equal measure."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Life's lessons are written not in textbooks, but in lived experience."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The architecture of a life is built with choices, both grand and small."
Ann Radcliffe
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"To live without feeling is to die without knowing you live."
Samuel Johnson
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Samuel Johnson
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"To live without feeling is to live without purpose."
Frances Burney