Life Quotes

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

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"We are all storytellers, and our lives are the narratives we construct."
Mares, Edwin
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"Meaning is not found; it is created through our choices."
Mares, Edwin
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"To live authentically is to live in accordance with one's deepest values."
Mares, Edwin
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Life teaches its lessons backwards—we understand them only after we've lived them."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We are bound by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are."
Nolan, Daniel
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"We are not searching for meaning; we are searching for ourselves."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Understanding the abstract world changes how we live in the concrete one."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Life is a conversation between what we want and what we need."
Mares, Edwin
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"Life is not the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away."
Mares, Edwin
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"The examined life requires the examined argument."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The unargued life is the unconsidered life."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"We are born into arguments; we must earn wisdom."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"To reason well is to live well."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The mind that stops questioning has stopped living."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Correia, Fabrice
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Correia, Fabrice
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"To live authentically, one must embrace the paradoxes within."
Priest, Graham
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"To think is to doubt; to doubt is to live."
Priest, Graham
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"The self is not something we have but something we do."
Priest, Graham
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"Existence precedes essence—we become what we do."
Priest, Graham
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"We are each the hero and villain of our own narratives."
Priest, Graham
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"Being alive is a constant negotiation with uncertainty."
Priest, Graham
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"Meaning is not found but forged."
Priest, Graham
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"We are less the authors of our destiny than we are its interpreters."
Rosen, Gideon