Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"We're all exiles from the country of our childhood."
Kathy Acker
"Let your life lightly dance with the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatest religion is to be true to this life, to make the most of what is here."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life's tragedies are often the seeds of transcendence and growth."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have decided that I'm not going to live in the past."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We are the sum of our choices, not the prisoners of our circumstances."
Jorge Edwards
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"Every human carries within them an untold story waiting for expression."
Jorge Edwards
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"To live is to participate in the great ongoing story of humanity."
Jorge Edwards
"Life is not what happens to us but how we respond to what happens."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"A life without questioning is a life half-lived."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"To live is to perpetually reinvent oneself."
Gioconda Belli
"To be alive is to be perpetually contradicting yourself."
Gioconda Belli
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"To be truly alive, you must embrace your own contradiction."
Kathy Acker
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"To be human is to be at war with yourself."
Kathy Acker
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"To be alive is to be implicated in systems of power."
Kathy Acker
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"To live authentically is to live dangerously."
Elena Garro
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"In every life, there is a story that must be told."
Elena Garro
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Every moment is a chance to begin again."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Life without passion is merely the shadow of existence."
Rubén Darío
"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Gioconda Belli
"We are shaped by our experiences, not defined by them."
Gioconda Belli
"Every moment is a choice between growth and stagnation."
Gioconda Belli
"We are made new each day by our choices and commitments."
Gioconda Belli
"To live authentically is to live as a question, not an answer."
Gioconda Belli
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"Life is what we create in the spaces between moments."
Nellie Campobello
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"Life demands we write our own story with courage."
Nellie Campobello
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"Pain and pleasure are not opposites but are intimately connected."
Kathy Acker
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"To be alive is to inhabit contradiction without trying to resolve it."
Kathy Acker