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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“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

“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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

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

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

“Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

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

“Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window, as they left Newhaven; it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“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 come.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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