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 is to engage in the eternal struggle for understanding and improvement."
Leonhard Euler
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"The soul is the principle of life and activity."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Life itself is the greatest experiment, with each day a new observation."
Christiaan Huygens
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"My life has been one long pursuit of harmony in an apparently chaotic universe."
Johannes Kepler
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"The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, and we must play our part with dignity."
René Descartes
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"Life is a journey of discovery, not a destination to be reached."
René Descartes
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"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"We are the product of our own actions."
Albert Bandura
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"Life's greatest rewards come from pursuing meaningful goals."
Albert Bandura
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"You are what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be."
Carl Jung
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Carl Jung
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"Emotion is the only thing in which we are truly alive."
Carl Jung
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"The only real limitation is death."
Carl Jung
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"Life's purpose is found in the pursuit of truth."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Life is a series of experiments to be conducted with care."
Ivan Pavlov
"I did not direct my life. I didn't school myself into success and happiness."
B.F. Skinner
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"Perfect spontaneity is the only way to live."
René Descartes
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"To live without philosophizing is like having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them."
René Descartes
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"A well-lived life requires constant examination and adjustment."
René Descartes
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"The stories we tell ourselves about our past limit or expand what we believe is possible in our future."
Albert Bandura
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"The difference between those who overcome adversity and those who are overcome by it is often the stories they tell themselves."
Albert Bandura
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"The ultimate measure of a life well-lived is not the absence of struggle but the meaning we extract from engaging with it."
Albert Bandura
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Carl Jung
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"The self is not only evil by nature, it is also the only available exponent of life's wisdom."
Carl Jung
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"One cannot live without meaning; life becomes meaningless without purpose."
Carl Jung
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"Meaning is found not in things but in the relationship between consciousness and existence."
Carl Jung
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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Carl Jung
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"The quest for meaning is the quest for the self."
Carl Jung
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"The purpose of life is to become fully human, to actualize one's potential."
Carl Jung
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"Life is a series of conditioned responses—the question is whether we condition them or they condition us."
Ivan Pavlov