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An unexamined life is not worth living.
Life and Living
Socrates

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Desire
Socrates

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Life and Living
Socrates

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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Growth
Socrates

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Love
Sophocles

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Solitude
Spanish Proverb

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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Parents and Parenting
Muriel Spark

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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Life and Living
Herbert Spencer

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Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
Money
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
Mistakes
Nadine Stair

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Lies and Lying
George Steiner

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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Pain
John Sterling

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
Experience
Judith Stern

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Literature
Wallace Stevens

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Complexity
Wallace Stevens

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Life and Living
Adlai E. Stevenson

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Goals
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Success
Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.
Life and Living
Robert Stone

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
Life and Living
Tom Stoppard

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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Epitaphs
Gloria Swanson

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May you live all the days of your life.
Life and Living
Jonathan Swift

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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
Misfortunes
Publilius Syrus

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun