Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The Child's Toys and the Old Man's Reasons Are the Fruits of the two seasons."William Blake
"Joy & Woe are woven fine, a Clothing for the Soul Divine."William Blake
"Life is the greatest poem ever written."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."Johan Christian Andersen
"The more one suffers, the more one feels alive"Knut Hamsun
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived"Knut Hamsun
"To be fully alive is to be in constant conflict"Knut Hamsun
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."Søren Kierkegaard
"The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world."Søren Kierkegaard
"The youth is transformed by the passion of life."Søren Kierkegaard
"Boredom is the root of all evil."Søren Kierkegaard
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."Robert Browning
"Life asks not whether you succeed, but whether you try."Robert Browning
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."Hans Christian Andersen
"The true fairy tale is the life that we live."Hans Christian Andersen
"I have learned in my six years that the most wonderful thing is to be alive."Hans Christian Andersen
"The world has a way of undoing our careful plans."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The deepest poverty is not of the purse but of the spirit."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."Johan Christian Andersen
"The measure of a person is not their achievements but their character."Johan Christian Andersen
"We are all prisoners of our own consciousness."Knut Hamsun
"Life's meaning is found in the struggle itself."Knut Hamsun
"We are all exiles from some lost paradise."Knut Hamsun
"Life's value is in how fully we lived it."Knut Hamsun
"I am a part of all that I have met."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The world is full of a number of things."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Drink life to the lees."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Depth of feeling cannot be manufactured; it can only be lived."Dante Gabriel Rossetti