CURATED COLLECTION

What Really Matters in Life

Strip away the noise and the distraction, and these quotes leave you with the thing you actually need.

50 quotes found

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

—Thales of MiletusPhilosopher & Mathematician

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The game is not over until it is over, and it is never really over.

—Julio CortázarNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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The earth gives, and we give back. That is the only agreement that matters.

—Patricia GraceAuthor

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

—Sholem AleichemAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Life's deepest mysteries are never fully solved; they are only lived.

—Murasaki ShikibuAuthor

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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And it is a true thing that when a man has a thought, it is a thing that will not die.

—John SteinbeckNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

—Harper LeeNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter it take with you your all.

—Kahlil GibranPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Middle East

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For what is the life of man, if it be not interwoven with the life of other men by the threads of reciprocal good‑will?

—CiceroStatesman, Lawyer & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. If you can't help, at least don't hurt.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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To live a life of joy and happiness, you must be a little bit mad.

—Zhang AilingWriter & Novelist

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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The joy of life is to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

—Theodore RooseveltPresident & Naturalist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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We are all dogeaters, consuming and consumed, in the grand, absurd carnival of life.

—Jessica HagedornNovelist, Poet & Artist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

—Erich FrommPhilosopher

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The wise man makes no distinction between himself and others, nor between life and death.

—LieziTaoist Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

—John LockePhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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