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