Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living, nor is the unlived life worth examining."Henrik Ibsen
"Every person carries within them unexplored potential."Henrik Ibsen
"There is no such thing as an ordinary human life, every man contains multitudes."Boris Pasternak
"One should not go to the theater if one wants to commit suicide."Boris Pasternak
"The whole of life has become a substitute for what it might have been."Boris Pasternak
"The price of living fully is the willingness to be fully alive."Boris Pasternak
"I love humanity, but I hate people."Nikolai Gogol
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."Nikolai Gogol
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful."Nikolai Gogol
"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."Nikolai Gogol
"Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given him but once, he must so live as not to be seared by the pain of living uselessly."Maxim Gorky
"A man who does not work is a man who has forgotten how to live."Maxim Gorky
"We are dying without noticing it, if we lose the ability to be astonished at our own existence."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"A man who loses his ability to wonder has lost his soul."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Life is a terrible, senseless game."Mikhail Lermontov
"I am never bored; one cannot be bored by life itself."Mikhail Lermontov
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."Vladimir Nabokov
"My life is a hymn to the joy of movement."Vladimir Nabokov
"To live is to read one's self constantly."Vladimir Nabokov
"To live is to feel, to suffer."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Life is precious and fleeting."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The world is a strange place; strange people appear in it."Nikolai Gogol
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."Boris Pasternak
"To be alive is to feel the weight of joy and sorrow equally."Boris Pasternak
"To live is to fight; to exist is to suffer."Maxim Gorky
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."Ivan Turgenev
"We all know that life is a complex affair, and that things are seldom all black or all white."Ivan Turgenev
"The purpose of life is not happiness but growth."Ivan Turgenev
"Life is short, and we should make the best use of it."Ivan Turgenev
"The most important part of life is the choice one makes."Ivan Turgenev