Life Quotes

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

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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Homer
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"Life is not about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself."
Homer
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"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood"
Dante Alighieri
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"The seed of tomorrow is planted in the choices of today"
Dante Alighieri
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"In the rhythm of life, we find our true tempo"
Dante Alighieri
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Pickering Edward
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"Life has got all those twists and turns. It's never a straight shot."
Pickering Edward
"A life well-lived requires both action and reflection."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Those who master their passions master their destiny."
Ovid
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"In the garden of life, weeds and flowers grow together."
Ovid
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"The art of living is learned only by experience."
Virgil
"A life well-lived is the best revenge."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood."
Dante Alighieri
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Dante Alighieri
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"The sweet and bitter mingle in all earthly things."
Dante Alighieri
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"To flee from the world is not to flee into virtue."
Dante Alighieri
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"The life well-lived is measured in moments of genuine presence, not achievements."
Pickering Edward
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"Life is too short to be anything but authentic."
Pickering Edward
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"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
Ovid
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
Ovid
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Ovid
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"Variables in the heavens mirror the variables within ourselves."
Henrietta Leavitt
"Life is too short to settle for mediocrity."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
"Life is a precious gift to be lived fully."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but the depth of its influence."
Pickering Edward
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"We spend so much time becoming what others expect that we forget who we wanted to be."
Pickering Edward
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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes."
George Lemaitre
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"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain."
George Lemaitre
"I have learned that the measure of a life is not its duration but its dedication."
Annie Jump Cannon
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"The real tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
Edwin Hubble