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 work of art is a life well-lived according to one's convictions."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Life offers its greatest lessons to those patient enough to listen."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"To be truly alive is to feel both joy and sorrow intensely."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The burden of consciousness is the gift of feeling."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"To be fully human is to love, create, and dream."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"We are all broken in some way, and that brokenness makes us human."Knut Hamsun
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."Hans Christian Andersen
"Every person's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger."Hans Christian Andersen
"Purpose is what transforms existence into living."Hans Christian Andersen
"The dance of life requires both stillness and movement."Hans Christian Andersen
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."Søren Kierkegaard
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."Søren Kierkegaard
"Let your life speak."Søren Kierkegaard
"Youth is the period in which a person is still becoming."Søren Kierkegaard
"The world was sad before I came into it, but sadder still when I depart."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."Johan Christian Andersen
"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."Johan Christian Andersen
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."Johan Christian Andersen
"Life is too short to waste on bitterness."Johan Christian Andersen
"We live our lives backward, only understanding the meaning after it has passed."Knut Hamsun
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."Robert Browning
"There may be heaven; there must be hell; meanwhile, there is our life here—well."Robert Browning
"How sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet."Robert Browning
"Living means not merely breathing—it means action, growth, creation."Robert Browning
"Each day brings its petty surface pleasures and its sanely concealed pains."Robert Browning
"The soul is born ancient and grows young; the body is born young and grows old."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"In the tapestry of life, every thread, however small, contributes to the whole pattern."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Life's greatest moments are often the quietest ones."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Life is not found in books alone, a young man should also know how to live."Hans Christian Andersen