Life Quotes

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

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"I have learned that life is both a blessing and a burden, and both are necessary."
Siddhartha
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"Life holds potential meaning under any circumstances, even the most miserable ones."
Viktor Frankl
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"Don't simply retire from the world unless you're assured that you're sick of it."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"A seagull has but one life to live and the most it can do is to make that life a full and fine one."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"I want to die while I'm still living."
Morrie Schwartz
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"I am nobody. I am an insignificant man"
The King
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"Live each day as if it were your last."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"The purpose of life is not achievement but experience."
Siddhartha
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"My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens, men hunt me"
The Fox
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"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
Viktor Frankl
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"Life's meaning differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour."
Viktor Frankl
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Viktor Frankl
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Did you love? Did you find some people to love and who loved you back? Did you make a decent living where you weren't struggling day to day?"
Morrie Schwartz
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"Because I am here, and I am dying, I am more alive than I have ever been."
Morrie Schwartz
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"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find that only the thing which has given you sorrow is now giving you joy."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"And life is but the love you gather and give away."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour"
Viktor Frankl
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"When you're in bed, you're dead."
Morrie Schwartz
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"So many people walk around with a meaningless existence."
Morrie Schwartz
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"I want to die while I'm still alive."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed; it is a quest for meaning."
Viktor Frankl
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"The meaning of life is found in every moment of living."
Viktor Frankl
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"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, trying to keep up with the Joneses, all this kind of thing."
Morrie Schwartz
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"So you think you're in control? But you're not."
Morrie Schwartz
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"This is how you start the process of learning to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"We live as if we are never going to die. We die as if we never lived."
Morrie Schwartz