Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."Anne Brontë
"Life offers no guarantees, only opportunities to endure with dignity."Thomas Hardy
"The manuscript of life cannot be edited; we must publish it as written."Thomas Hardy
"The dance between duty and desire is the central conflict of human life."Thomas Hardy
"The value of life cannot be measured in years, only in moments of genuine presence."Thomas Hardy
"The years between childhood and adulthood are perhaps less mysterious in what they produce than in what they pass by."George Eliot
"Every life has its hidden sorrows, which the world knows nothing of."George Eliot
"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be."George Eliot
"If youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle, and old age a regret."George Eliot
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."George Eliot
"Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say."Emily Brontë
"Every heart has its burdens; every soul carries its weight."Emily Brontë
"To refuse to love is to refuse to live."Emily Brontë
"In life, we must learn that becoming is more important than being."William Butler Yeats
"We begin to live when we have conceived life as a tragedy."William Butler Yeats
"Pleasure and pain are like light and darkness; they follow each other, and neither can exist alone."William Butler Yeats
"Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation."Charlotte Brontë
"Variety is the spice of life."Charlotte Brontë
"I would rather have one life to live than a thousand dreams."Charlotte Brontë
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."George Bernard Shaw
"What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: to be himself."George Bernard Shaw
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."Oscar Wilde
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."Oscar Wilde
"Do not suppose that I am always this same serious, morose creature you behold now."Anne Brontë
"Life is a struggle, and we must be strong enough to face it."Anne Brontë
"I would rather live a brief authentic life than a long false one."Anne Brontë
"Life's purpose is found in service and growth."Anne Brontë
"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."Emily Brontë
"Life is too short to hold grudges."Emily Brontë
"Life is a journey, not a destination."Emily Brontë