Life Quotes

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

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"Life rewards the curious and punishes the complacent."
Galileo Galilei
"Every moment of life is an opportunity to learn and transform."
Louis Pasteur
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"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 4 billion years after the universe began, is a lesson in how precious each and every one of us is."
Carl Sagan
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"A single human being is a magnificent achievement of cosmic construction."
Carl Sagan
"I have this one chance to exist for a while in this universe, and so I try to have as good a time as possible."
Richard Feynman
"The struggle for existence will always be there."
Charles Darwin
"The struggle for existence will always be there in a multitude of forms."
Charles Darwin
"There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair."
Charles Darwin
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Albert Einstein
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
Albert Einstein
"Do not grow old, no matter what. There is nothing good in growing old."
Albert Einstein
"A life spent in search of truth is a life well-lived, regardless of the discoveries made."
Louis Pasteur
"Long experience has taught me this about the status of affairs in this world: that we are usually the biggest obstacles to ourselves."
Galileo Galilei
"When we are young, we are slaves by nature, in fact. We are dependent on everyone around us."
Galileo Galilei
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"Life is not a destination, but a journey to be savored."
Marie Curie
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."
Marie Curie
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"I learned that life is not fair, but it is good."
Marie Curie
"Purpose in life is to find joy in what you do, not money or fame."
Richard Feynman
"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains enough elements to make it worth living."
Nikola Tesla
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Gupta, Akhil
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Gupta, Akhil
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Albert Einstein
"Life is like a box of chocolates; the best pieces are always at the bottom."
Albert Einstein
"The mistakes of our youth teach us the lessons of our age."
Galileo Galilei
"The endeavor to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."
Galileo Galilei
"To cease questioning is to cease living fully as a human being."
Galileo Galilei
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
Marie Curie
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"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, by and large. But only viewed from a distance, from the stage."
Marie Curie