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The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
Ludwig Wittgenstein / 






It requires management to enjoy life.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 






For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
Alan Watts - The Book – On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are / 
 






One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 






It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
André Breton  / 






To choose life, is to always choose the future.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






The heart is the key of the world and of life.
Novalis / 



The heart is the key of the world and of life.




Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa / 






Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein / 






There my life began when I loved you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris / 
 






He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.
Friedrich Hölderlin / 






I have lived long enough : my way of life
Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth / 
 






To devote one's life to the truth.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 
 






If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.
Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort / 
 






Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
A phrase often attributed to Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 
 






The world and life are one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 
 






I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau / 






One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau / 






To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain / 






You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus / 






But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus / 






The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables / 
 






We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest / 
 






Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 






That is, I only know the truth when it becomes a life in me.
Soren Kierkegaard / 






Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 
 






Health is the primary duty of life.
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest / 
 










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