Life Quotes

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

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"The self is not a destination but a direction."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Life is the space between birth and death where we choose our meaning."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Smith, Barry
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it."
Smith, Barry
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"To live is to risk it all."
Smith, Barry
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"We inherit the world, but we create the culture."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Life is the story we tell ourselves about what happened to us."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Life is defined by choices made under constraint."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"It is our task to cease the search for the meaning of life and instead create meaning in life."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"To think deeply is to live deliberately."
Montague, Richard
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"To reason well is to live well."
Montague, Richard
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"The clarity of a concept is the clarity of a life."
Montague, Richard
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"A life without questions is a life half-lived."
Smith, Barry
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"The greatest tragedy is living a life unlived."
Smith, Barry
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be meaningful."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Perry, John
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Perry, John
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Perry, John
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"The meaning we create through language shapes the meaning of our lives."
Montague, Richard
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"The pursuit of meaning is the most fundamental human endeavor."
Montague, Richard
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"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The way to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that will make the problem disappear."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"We find meaning not in the destination, but in how we treat others along the journey."
Smith, Barry
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"Life is what happens while we're busy defending our expectations."
Smith, Barry
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"Life teaches those who remain willing to be taught by it."
Smith, Barry