Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The world is all that we think of."Wallace Stevens
"The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle."Jack Kerouac
"I realized that the only thing that matters in life is that you're living it."Jack Kerouac
"All of life is a foreign country."Jack Kerouac
"Tomorrow may be too late; live today."Jack Kerouac
"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose."Jack Kerouac
"I am here to live, not to exist."Jack Kerouac
"The fact of being human is a fact of consequence."Marianne Moore
"We are all creatures of convention and habit."Marianne Moore
"We are the sum of our reaching and our falling short."Hart Crane
"Life is so strange, we must accept it."Hilda Doolittle
"Life is a poem waiting to be written."Hilda Doolittle
"Life repeats until we learn its lessons."Hilda Doolittle
"The measure of a life is not its duration but its depth."William Carlos Williams
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth of engagement."Hart Crane
"Mad to be sane, mad to be alive, mad to see the world in clarity."Allen Ginsberg
"Life is a series of choices, each defining us."Hilda Doolittle
"The beautiful life requires constant renewal."Hilda Doolittle
"One constructs a life out of careful attention to detail."Marianne Moore
"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world."Wallace Stevens
"The world is a stage where we perform the self we imagine."Wallace Stevens
"Life's nobility is all bound up in the fact that life is difficult."Wallace Stevens
"The struggle of the ego with the cosmos defines existence."Wallace Stevens
"We live in a perpetual renaissance of sensation."Wallace Stevens
"To live without the appearance of poetry is to live a partial existence."Wallace Stevens
"We are forever constructing and reconstructing our sense of self."Wallace Stevens
"One's life is defined by the depth of one's interior world."Wallace Stevens
"The self emerges from the collision of desire and circumstance."Wallace Stevens
"The world is a stage where consciousness performs itself."Wallace Stevens
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."Jack Kerouac