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
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"Life is a beautiful struggle."
Émile Zola
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"I love life because what more is there."
Émile Zola
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"We are made of dreams and dust."
Émile Zola
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"Life's greatest lesson is learning to love."
Émile Zola
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Émile Zola
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"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