“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Helen Keller · The Open Door, 1957
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, 399 BC
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life, c. 49 AD
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
