Life Quotes

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

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"Life is measured not in years but in moments of meaning."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The soul wants to think, the heart wants to feel, and the body wants to act."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To live is to feel; to avoid feeling is to avoid living."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Every moment is a choice to live or merely exist."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"We are all works in progress, forever unfinished."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Every person is the author of their own story."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The soul is born old, but grows young."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Life is a beautiful wound we refuse to heal."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Better to live as you believe; otherwise you'll end up believing as you live."
Anton Chekhov
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"The variety of subjects is the joy of life."
Anton Chekhov
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"A person is not interesting until he is 40 years old. Then he becomes interesting."
Anton Chekhov
"Nothing to be done."
Samuel Beckett
"Habit is a great deadener."
Samuel Beckett
"The day I was born was a terrible day."
Samuel Beckett
"We are dancing on a grave."
Samuel Beckett
"We are mere shadows on a wall."
Samuel Beckett
"To live is to suffer."
Samuel Beckett
"We are making it up as we go."
Samuel Beckett
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The world is a looking glass: it reflects your own face on it."
Leo Tolstoy
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"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The law of action and reaction is the law of life."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Without suffering, what is the point of being alive?"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Boredom is an insult to oneself."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The great thing about life is its uncertainty."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The most precious thing in the world is the human heart."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The pages of life are written with the ink of love and sorrow."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Life is too short to waste on small grudges."
Aleksandr Pushkin