- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020