MANY IMPORTANT PHRASES TO REFLECT ON THE MEANING OF LIFE

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The important phrases about life and about love

There are feathers so skilled that they are able to describe the most complicated situations in life in a clear and direct way, simply with the use of words. Sometimes these thoughts are able to get in touch with our being and change the way we look at things.
These are the important phrases ever made by man on topics such as life and love. Real pearls of wisdom to keep noted in your diary or to share with friends and relatives by attaching suggestive images.

How can we best live the only life that has been granted to us? Are we at the mercy of destiny? In this article you can find a selection of phrases, aphorisms and quotes that in our opinion are the most beautiful written on paper by the authors of the story and from the literary characters we studied at school. All of them try to answer the great questions that man has been wondering about since the dawn of time.
We hope you can find the one that makes you believe you are part of something great ... and that supports you in the difficulties that life puts before you. Read on and go in search of the most suitable quote for you.

Famous thoughts of writers, artists and philosophers

It may seem strange that life is a pure accident, but in such a large Universe accidents are inevitable.
(Bertrand Russell)

There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. True nobility is being superior to who we were yesterday.
(Ernest Hemingway)

Those who are silent and those who bow their heads die every time they do so, those who speak and those who walk with their heads held high only die once.
(Giovanni Falcone)

The biggest mistake you can make in life is to always be afraid of making one.
(Elbert Hubbard)

All the truth, all the delight, all the beauty of life is made up of shadow and light.
(Lev Tolstoy)

Before judging my life or my character, put on my shoes, walk the path I have walked. Live my pains, my doubts, my laughter. Live the years that I lived and fall where I fell and stand up like I did. Everyone has their own story. And only then you can judge me.
(Luigi Pirandello)

Three things are important in human life: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.
(Henry James)

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
(Lao Tzu)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. You have to feel them with your heart.
(Helen Keller)

Short aphorisms about life

You look like no one since I love you.
(Pablo Neruda)

You only love what you don't have at all.
(Marcel Proust)

In life there is nothing to fear, only to understand.
(Marie Curie)

Life is ours to be lived, not to be spared.
(D. H. Lawrence)

Love is being able to perceive the similar from the dissimilar.
(Theodor Adorno)

Life without love is like a tree without flowers or fruit.
(Khalil Gibran)

Life is the flower for which love is honey.
(Victor Hugo)

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you do, the better.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Follow what you love or you will end up loving what you find.
(Carlo Collodi)

Life cannot be explained, it is lived.
(Luigi Pirandello)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
(George Bernard Shaw)

Those who think they live forever live badly.
(Publilius Syrus)

Living is still the best thing to do down here.
(Jules Laforgue)

The only thing that is known about love is that love is everything.
(Emily Dickinson)

Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think they are.
(François de La Rochefoucauld)

Life is the sum of all your choices.
(Albert Camus)

Be the change you want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Life is a party: let's live it together!
(Federico Fellini)

Life is not about buying and having, but about giving and being.
(Kevin Kruse)

important phrases: short ones from famous authors

Quotes taken from author's books

Life is not what you lived, but what you remember and how you remember it to tell it.
(Gabriel García Márquez, Live to tell it)

Take life lightly, that lightness is not superficiality, but gliding over things from above, not having boulders on your heart.
(Italo Calvino, American lessons)

The time to read, like the time to love, extends the time to live.
(Daniel Pennac, Like a novel)

The only real journey, the only bath of youth, would not be to go towards new landscapes, but to have different eyes, to see the universe with the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of us they see, that each of them is.
(Marcel Proust, The prisoner)

I see the world slowly changing into a desert, I hear the roar approaching that will kill us too, I participate in the pain of millions of men, and yet, when I look at the sky, I think that everything will turn to good again, that even this ruthless hardness will cease, order, peace and serenity will return.
(Anne Frank, Diary)

Those who dream by day know many things that escape those who dream only at night.
(Edgar Allan Poe, Stories)

By reading we are not looking for new ideas, but thoughts already thought by us, which acquire a seal of confirmation on the page.
(Cesare Pavese, The craft of living)

The most beautiful of the seas is the one we did not sail. The most beautiful of our children has not yet grown up. We have not yet experienced the most beautiful of our days. And what I would like to tell you the most beautiful, I haven't told you yet.
(Nazim Hikmet, Love poems)

Here is my secret. It is very simple: it can only be seen with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The little Prince)

When the storm is over, you probably won't even know how you got through it and made it out alive. In fact, you won't even be sure if it's really over. But on one point there is no doubt. And it is that you, having come out of that wind, will not be the same one who entered it.
(Murakami, Kafka on the beach)

I grew up among books, making invisible friends among the dusty pages that I still smell on my hands.
(Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The shadow of the wind)

If there is no love in the world we will make another world, and surround it with massive walls and furnish it with soft red interiors, and provide it with a clapper that sounds like a diamond dropped into a jeweler's felt so that we don't hear it. never. Love me because love does not exist and I have tried everything that exists.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is illuminated)

important phrases: quotes from books

Thoughts to share

Happiness is not about being able to do everything you want, but wanting everything you do.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

A life that primarily aims to satisfy personal desires sooner or later leads to bitter disappointment.
(Albert Einstein)

Life is like a mirror: it smiles at you if you look at it smiling.
(Jim Morrison)

If there is no deep love, it is not possible for there to be deep disappointment.
(Martin Luther Jr. King)

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent species that survive, but the one that adapts best to change.
(Charles Darwin)

If freedom means anything, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.
(George Orwell)

How is love defined? Perhaps you ask those who are alive, what is life?
Do you ask those who worship, who is God?
(Shelley)

It is my love that lives in every feeling and looks for you in every beautiful thing.
(G. Carducci)

Give each day a chance to be the most beautiful of your life.
(Mark Twain)

Do what feels right in your heart, as you will be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

What you do counts, not what you say.
(Cesare Pavese)

Thinking is difficult. This is why most people judge.
(Carl Gustav Jung)

Intelligence is a dangerous weapon even for its possessor, if the possessor does not know how to use it with discretion.
(Michel de Montaigne)

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
(Walt Disney)

One day you will wake up and there will be no more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do them now.
(Paulo Coelho)

If you love life, don't waste time, because that's what all our lives are made of.
(Benjamin Franklin)

Success is going from one failure to another without ever losing your enthusiasm.
(Winston Churchill)

important phrases: the thinking of scientists like Einstein

Pearls of wisdom from spiritual guides

No living thing is to be killed, not the smallest animal or insect, because all life is sacred.
(Buddha)

Listen, my son, to the teachings of the master and open your heart meekly; gladly welcome the advice inspired by his paternal love and put it into practice with commitment, so that you can return through the diligence of obedience to the One from whom you have strayed due to the indolence of disobedience.
(St. Benedict)

The only real failure in life is not acting consistently with one's values.
(Buddha)

To be true, love must cost effort, it must hurt, it must empty us of our self.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

There are only two days a year when you can't do anything: one is called yesterday, the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and, above all, live.
(Dalai Lama)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Judge your success in relation to what you had to give up to get it.
(Dalai Lama)

Don't worry about the numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person closest to you.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.
(Michael Althsuler)

Why adapt when you were born to stand out?
(Dr Seuss)

Dance as if no one is watching, love as if no one has ever hurt you, sing as if no one is listening, live as if heaven were on earth.
(William W. Purkey)

In the time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
(George Orwell)

Not for how long, but how well you lived is the main thing.
(Seneca)

important phrases: the reflections of religious personalities

Reflections on the passing of time and how to live fully

Life is like an echo: if you don't like what it sends back, you have to change the message you send.
(James Joyce)

We cannot expect things to change if we keep doing the same things.
(Albert Einstein)

A life is a work of art. There is no more beautiful poetry than living fully.
(Georges Clemenceau)

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is beautiful to live because to live is to begin, always, at every moment.
(Cesare Pavese)

Each player must accept the cards that life offers him: but once he has them in his hand, he must decide for himself how to play them to win the game.
(Voltaire)

We are made of the stuff dreams are made of; and our short life is enclosed in the space and time of a dream.
(William Shakespeare)

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
(Pablo Picasso)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things.
(Albert Einstein)

Life is like a scale: on the one hand there is reason, on the other the heart. It is up to us to try not to lose our balance.
(Gabriele Martufi)

Life is so short that there is no time for quarrels, for resentment and for war. There is only time to love and it only lasts an instant.
(Mark Twain)

Life is made up of very rare moments of great intensity and countless intervals. Most men, however, not knowing the magical moments, end up living only the intervals.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
(Steve Jobs)

In life it also happens that, looking down to look for what you have lost, you see something else that is worth collecting.
(Alex Zanardi)

A man who observes the world at fifty in the same way he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life.
(Muhammad Ali)

It takes a minute to notice a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, a whole life to forget them.
(Charlie Chaplin)

A man who dares to waste even an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.
(Charles Darwin)

A lie has time to travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
(Mark Twain)

important phrases: the secrets of how to live well

Romantic phrases about true love

Love is a risk that a person takes. This is why true love is for the brave.
(Fabio Volo)

We are all born out of love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.
(Benjamin Disraeli)

You know you are in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
(Dr. Seuss)

True love is neither physical nor romantic. True love is the acceptance of all that is, has been, will be and will not be. The happiest people are not necessarily those who have the best of everything, but those who make the most of what they have. Life is not a question of how to survive the storm, but of how to dance in the rain.
(Kahlil Gibran)

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you have given.
(Paul McCartney)

Love is a wild force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison him, he enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused.
(Paulo Coelho)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who are afraid of life are already three quarters dead.
(Bertrand Russell)

To love is not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Be worthy of love, and love will come.
(Louisa May Alcott)

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Love is like a tree: it germinates by itself, throws its roots deeply into our whole life, and often continues to grow green above a heart in ruins.
(Victor Hugo)

Who, being loved, can call himself poor?
(Oscar Wilde)

Love, love madly, love as much as you can and if they tell you it is sin, love your sin and you will be innocent.
(William Shakespeare)

The most important thing in life is to love someone. The second most important thing in life is to have someone who loves you. The third most important thing is that the first two happen at the same time.
(Howie Schneider)

A feather can turn a stone if the hand of love moves it.
(Hugo von Hofmannsthal)

Love will bear everything; love will go beyond death; love fears nothing.
(Maria Faustina Kowalska)

The love? Take everything away from me but no love, don't take it away from me: love is rain and wind, it is sun and star.
(Anna Magnani)

Love is like a perfume, like a current, like rain.
(Frida Kahlo)