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“To be, or not to be, that is the Question” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“A light heart lives long.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“It would seem, Adeimantus, that the direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.” Plato, “The Republic”

“Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful...” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?” Confucius, “Analects”

“We live, as we dream—alone...” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“How good life is when one does something good and just!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Winston Churchill, “The Story of the Malakand Field Force” - 1898

“Hadn’t I always thought that life was just one great risk?” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“All the conditions of happiness are realised in the life of the man of science.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776

“But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” - 1774

“My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

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