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The finest quotes about life, living well and what it all means. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest life quotes ever written — from William Wordsworth, Lao Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

The choices we make dictate the life we lead.

Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be.

— William Wordsworth

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

— Lao Tzu

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

— Dante Alighieri

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

— Virginia Woolf

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

— William Wordsworth

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life — but a smooth road never made a skilful driver.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My life is my message.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

— Helen Keller

May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.

— Irish Blessing

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

— Leo Tolstoy

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

— Epicurus

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.

— Emily Dickinson

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

— Charles Dickens

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

— John Lennon

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make each day your masterpiece — especially Friday.

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

— Henry David Thoreau

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

— Bruce Lee

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