Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The greatest achievement is to live with integrity and purpose."Frances Burney
"The best provision for old age is a well-spent youth."Daniel Defoe
"When a man acts against his nature, he acts against his destiny."Daniel Defoe
"Life is a precious gift meant to be lived fully."Eliza Haywood
"Life's greatest lesson is learning to let go."Eliza Haywood
"Bread is the staff of life."Jonathan Swift
"Necessity has a way of forcing us to choose."Aphra Behn
"A life without love is no life at all."Aphra Behn
"No creature is fully employed whose passions are not engaged."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"We are all works in progress."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."Samuel Johnson
"Every man naturally desires to live as long as he can."Samuel Johnson
"Living well requires living thoughtfully."Samuel Johnson
"The architect of one's own misery is often oneself."Samuel Johnson
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"We are all dying every moment."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Energy is Eternal Delight."William Blake
"Every Night & every Morn some to Misery are Born."William Blake
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."William Blake
"Abstinence sows sand all over the red fruit of the vine."William Blake
"I Sing the Body electric"William Blake
"I have mental joy & I have mental strife."William Blake
"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Oh, to be worn out by the world, to be cast aside and forgotten."Christina Rossetti
"Life is not a dream. But it may be made to approach to one."Christina Rossetti
"All things pass, all things return."Christina Rossetti
"The gift of life is the opportunity to grow."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."Jonathan Swift
"Youth is the first act in the play of life."Jonathan Swift