Life Quotes · Page 17

Reflect on the deeper meaning of existence with profound life quotes from philosophers, poets, and everyday wisdom. These quotes help you navigate the beautiful complexity of living.

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“We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?”

— Lloyd Alexander

“If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“Mourn the dead by pitying the living.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“All living things on earth are kindred.”

— Edward Abbey

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.”

— Edward Abbey

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

— Edward Abbey

“Life is already too short to waste on speed.”

— Edward Abbey

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

— Isabel Allende

“I think that the reason to live is to learn.”

— Isabel Allende

“Daily life is brimful of fantasy and at the same time books are saturated with reality.”

— Isabel Allende

“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“How slowly I have made my way in life! How much is still to be done!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.”

— Richard Bach

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

— Richard Bach

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.'”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In this life we get nothing save by effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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