Life Quotes

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

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"So many people walk around with a meaningless life."
Morrie Schwartz
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"It's impossible to live without some kind of structure."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Did I enjoy my ride on the planet? That's what matters."
Morrie Schwartz
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"To live is to experience things, not sit in meditation upon them"
The Alchemist
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
Marcus Aurelius
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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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"It's not just that I'm dying. I'm living. I'm really living."
Morrie Schwartz
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"I'm dying but I'm not already dead, do you know what I mean?"
Morrie Schwartz
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"You're not facing death. You're facing how you want to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Personal legends are what gives our lives meaning"
The Alchemist
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"You will never be able to escape from your heart"
The Alchemist
T
"I have lived a lot. I have loved and I have loved strongly."
The Little Prince
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"The well we saw was not just a well. It was the well of my life."
The Little Prince
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"Our main motivation is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain, but to find a meaning in life"
Viktor Frankl
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"The search for meaning is not optional; it is fundamental to the human condition"
Viktor Frankl
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"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"
Henry David Thoreau
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
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"A man can do nothing without the simpler things, without clothing, without food, without a bed to sleep on"
Siddhartha
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"I am glad to be alive and to sin and to suffer"
Siddhartha
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"When you listen to your heart and follow your dreams, you find your true path."
Santiago
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
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"The time for living is always now."
Seneca
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"The proper function of man is to live, not merely to exist."
Seneca
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Even if I am not, I shall have lived."
The Little Prince
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"I sought to become myself, to find myself."
Siddhartha
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Seneca
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Seneca
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."
Seneca