What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find
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What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.” — Wendell Berry
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” — Frank Sinatra
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“As a culture and society, we prosper and suffer through our language and definitions.” —Terrell Heick
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — J.K. Rowling
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” — Tina Fey
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” — Mark Twain
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
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