Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Your identity is not your appearance, your job, or your possessions."Douglas Coupland
"The value and merit of a life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."Carson McCullers
"I have loved and I have been loved, and thus I have lived."Carson McCullers
"The best of life is lived in the moments between breaths."Carson McCullers
"Real life is not constituted by external events."Eudora Welty
"Every character is the hero of their own story."Eudora Welty
"The making of a story is how you learn to live."Eudora Welty
"Life has an order, and we discover it through living."Eudora Welty
"We are shaped by our stories."Eudora Welty
"The journey matters more than the destination."Eudora Welty
"We're the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."Margaret Atwood
"To live is to make a choice about what matters."Margaret Atwood
"The end is often a return to the beginning."Flannery O'Connor
"We are dying from civilisation and all its discontents."Robertson Davies
"The business of living is not to be escaped; it must be endured."Robertson Davies
"People complain that life is monotonous, when they themselves are monotonous."Robertson Davies
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed."Cormac McCarthy
"The road goes on forever."Cormac McCarthy
"The search for meaning is what makes life worth living."Carson McCullers
"We are all outsiders in some way, struggling to find where we belong."Carson McCullers
"We are all performance artists, playing roles that may or may not reflect our true selves."Carson McCullers
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on shore, dabbling at the edge."Eudora Welty
"We are all actors on the stage of life; some just perform better than others."Eudora Welty
"To be alive is to be in constant negotiation with the unknown."Eudora Welty
"We are dying, all of us, and we know it; the thing is to live in the meantime."Joyce Carol Oates
"Identity is not fixed but fluid, constantly being negotiated through our interactions and choices."Joyce Carol Oates
"We are shaped by trauma as much as by joy; both are essential teachers if we listen."Joyce Carol Oates
"Legacy is created not through grand gestures but through countless small acts of attention."Joyce Carol Oates
"Desire is not a flaw but a fundamental human drive; the question is how you direct it."Joyce Carol Oates
"Nothing is ever simple for long."Margaret Atwood