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