Life Quotes

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

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"The fulfillment of human life comes through the exercise of virtue."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Man is not troubled by things, but by the views he takes of them."
Epictetus
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"Know that you are an actor in a drama of whatever kind the author chooses."
Epictetus
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"Your ability to control your thoughts determines the quality of your life."
Epictetus
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"What matters is not what happens to you, but how you react to it."
Epictetus
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Seneca
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"A joyful life is an individual matter. What one person finds boring, another finds fascinating."
Seneca
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"Begin to live before you cease to exist."
Seneca
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"It is not the fear of death that haunts our sleep so much as the fear of life."
Seneca
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"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."
Seneca
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"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
Seneca
"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"Your life is not determined by what happens to you, but by how you react to what happens."
Marcus Aurelius
"How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man."
Marcus Aurelius
"The shortness of life demands that we invest ourselves in lasting things."
Marcus Aurelius
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
Marcus Aurelius
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Marcus Aurelius
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"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Our entire life is the material from which our choices are made."
Augustine of Hippo
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"In the garden of human potential, every person possesses seeds of excellence."
Averroes
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"The active life and the contemplative life are both necessary for the complete human being."
Averroes
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Cicero
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"To live well is to act well."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The more a being acts, the more alive it is."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
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"Life without testing is like food without seasoning."
Seneca
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"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Seneca
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Seneca
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"Remember that you are an actor in a play, and the character assigned you by the playwright is yours to perfect."
Epictetus