Life Quotes

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

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"To live fully is to embrace all emotions."
Emily Brontë
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"The book of life is written by our choices."
Emily Brontë
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"Life is both heartbreak and beauty."
Emily Brontë
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"The best of life is often found in the smallest moments and quietest corners."
Thomas Hardy
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"The cruelest irony is that we often desire what destroys us."
Thomas Hardy
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"Pain is the price of consciousness, numbness the reward of indifference."
Thomas Hardy
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"Pain makes us human; indifference makes us monsters."
Thomas Hardy
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
George Eliot
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"Every human being has a story written in their heart."
George Eliot
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"We are all travelers passing through; let us travel kindly."
George Eliot
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"We are shaped by the choices we make and the love we give."
George Eliot
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"The ghosts of all that we might have been are always walking with us"
Charles Dickens
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"Sorrow and trouble follow us through life in one shape or another"
Charles Dickens
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"Life is to be lived, not merely endured"
Charles Dickens
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"The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation"
Charles Dickens
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"Every moment lost to despair is a moment not lived."
Anne Brontë
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"To live authentically is to live in accordance with your deepest convictions."
Anne Brontë
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"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Anne Brontë
"Life is a beautiful struggle."
Émile Zola
"I love life because what more is there."
Émile Zola
"We are made of dreams and dust."
Émile Zola
"Life's greatest lesson is learning to love."
Émile Zola
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Émile Zola
"Life is 10% what happens and 90% how you react to it."
Émile Zola
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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 pleasant; monotony is wearisome."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Life seems a greater and a stranger thing than people imagine."
Charlotte Brontë
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"I have lived a life scarcely less tumultuous than most."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."
George Bernard Shaw
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
George Bernard Shaw