Topic
Life
“When you wake in the morning, remember what a precious gift it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to feel, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not live as though you had ten thousand years before you. While you live, while you can: be good.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“A person does not grow through happiness. They grow through what they have carried.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · From the novels
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“One who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“Nine tenths of our happiness rests on health alone.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
“Life swings like a pendulum between pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · The World as Will and Representation
“The mystery of existence lies not in living alone, but in knowing what one lives for.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
“Life is long enough if you know how to use it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Where it is possible to live, it is possible to live well.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil
“The greatest folly is to sacrifice health for anything else.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
“The present is a mighty goddess.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Torquato Tasso
“He who has enough is rich.”
Laozi · Tao Te Ching
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden
“The price of a thing is the amount of life you give for it.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden
