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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“There are darknesses in life, and there are lights. You are one of the lights.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“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

“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

“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

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

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Make a decision and watch your life move forward.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“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

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

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

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

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

“But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

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

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

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

“my friends have made the story of my life.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“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

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this conviction the blind man possesses.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“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

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“This would be a hazardous life, and I would be apart from my family, but when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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

“Our life is frittered away by detail.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I'm afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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

“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch...” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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