Life Quotes

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

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"You teach me what it means to live."
Hans
"One cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and honorably and justly."
Epicurus
"A simple life lived with intention is superior to a complex life lived in distraction."
Epicurus
"To live well is not to live long, but to live with purpose and meaning."
Epicurus
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Socrates
S
"Be as you wish to seem."
Socrates
T
"The journey is more important than the destination."
Timmy
A
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle
A
"Doing easy things makes life easy. Doing hard things makes life hard."
Aristotle
A
"What is the purpose of life? It is not happiness. It is not virtue. It is not perfection. It is a life of the highest achievement of which we are capable."
Aristotle
"The pleasant life is produced by the practice of virtue."
Epicurus
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"The prison-house is the body; the prisoner is the soul."
Plato
P
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
Plato
P
"Pleasure and pain are the first perceptions of children."
Plato
P
"We are dying from our thoughts."
Plato
P
"The life unexamined is not worth living."
Plato
T
"Life is what happens when we finally stop trying to control it."
Tiffany
T
"Life is the conversation between who we are and who we're becoming."
Tiffany
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
Elrond
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"Immortality is not a gift without its sorrows."
Elrond
T
"Life is about finding your own way to communicate with the world."
Timmy
S
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Socrates
S
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
Socrates
S
"Every action has its pleasures and its prices."
Socrates
S
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Socrates
S
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
Socrates
S
"Hunger is the best sauce."
Socrates
S
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
Socrates
A
"To perceive is to suffer."
Aristotle
A
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle