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Quotes about life




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.
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 / 






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 / 






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 / 






Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 






Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr. / 






Each life makes its destiny.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime / 






We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being / 






The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Alan Watts / 






Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.
Jules Renard / 










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