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Quotes about life




A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 






Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 



Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.




As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 



As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.




All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo Tolstoy / 






Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 






To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 






There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 






Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 



Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.




A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
Albert Einstein / 






Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 






The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov / 






The aim of living is Life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Hide your life and spread your spirit.
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres / 






All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 



All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard / 



Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.




Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi / 



Where there is love there is life.

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My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 






And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 






Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie / 



Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.




It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






Life is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen / 






Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia / 






All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France / 






Later it will be too late. Our life is now.
Jacques Prévert / 






All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals / 






There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 



There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.

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All our analyses show us, in life, an effort to remount the incline that matter descends.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 






The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell / 










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