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