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Anaïs Nin
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
Dalai Lama
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
John Lennon · Beautiful Boy, 1980
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“The game isn't over until it's over.”
Yogi Berra
“You can't think and hit at the same time.”
Yogi Berra
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
Yogi Berra
“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”
Yogi Berra
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
Yogi Berra · on why the Yankees lost
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
Yogi Berra
“It's like deja vu all over again.”
Yogi Berra
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
Yogi Berra
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Yogi Berra
