Life Quotes

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

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"The years pass, but the heart remains the same."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Every person has a story worth telling."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Every moment is an opportunity to grow."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Life means intensity - that a man shall live more fully than others."
Robert Browning
"Hearts will break and reform and break again."
Robert Browning
"Life is a corridor with doors that open and close."
Robert Browning
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Boredom is the root of all evil."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Every person must choose whether to live authentically or inauthentically."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The only thing that has always been asked of a man is that he should be willing to exist."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
August Strindberg
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"Life is like a box of matches, the game's too short and the stakes too high."
August Strindberg
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"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Every ending carries within it a new beginning."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness."
Henrik Ibsen
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"One's duty is to oneself first and foremost."
Henrik Ibsen
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"A man's first duty is to his own perfection."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Life is a struggle, but we must struggle to live fully."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Life is not a fairy tale, but a journey of becoming who you are meant to be."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The ordinary moment contains infinite extraordinary possibilities."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Every man's burden is his own."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"When a man is just beginning to live, he sometimes thinks he is dying."
Anna Akhmatova
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"In the end, all that remains is love and loss."
Anna Akhmatova
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"To live is to be tested daily by circumstance and choice."
Anna Akhmatova
"A man's first duty is to himself"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"To live is to choose, but to choose well is to live nobly"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson