Life Quotes

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

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"Spend all your time trying to be cool and you'll waste your life."
Jack Kerouac
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"Life is trying things to see what works."
Jack Kerouac
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"Life is neither good nor bad; it simply is."
Jack Kerouac
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"Life is a series of moments strung together."
Amy Lowell
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"To live fully is to remain curious about the world around you."
William Carlos Williams
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"To be fully alive is to be fully present."
William Carlos Williams
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"A life well-lived leaves traces in the lives of others."
William Carlos Williams
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"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
Hart Crane
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"My whole life has been a progress toward intensity and depth of vision."
Hart Crane
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"Life demands that we be poets in our living."
Hilda Doolittle
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"To live fully is to live dangerously."
Hilda Doolittle
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"To live authentically is the highest form of rebellion."
Hilda Doolittle
"To live is to engage constantly with the new."
Wallace Stevens
"We live in the tension between desire and reality."
Wallace Stevens
"The worth of a life is measured in the richness of its experience."
Wallace Stevens
"A woman should become a woman primarily through her femininity, not her functionality."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is the sum of small things."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
Fannie Hurst
"We are the sum of our moments."
Fannie Hurst
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"My candle burns at both ends; it gives a lovely light!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Life is not one thing after another; it's the same damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"We are not given instruction to become wiser; we are compelled to it by circumstance."
Marianne Moore
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"To live fully is to pay attention with complete focus."
William Carlos Williams
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"To be alive is to be forever disagreeing with death."
William Carlos Williams
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"The measure of a life is not its duration but its depth of feeling."
Hart Crane
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"I have lived my life deliberately, and I have no regrets."
Amy Lowell
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."
Amy Lowell
"Life is not about discovering yourself, it is about creating yourself through imagination."
Wallace Stevens
"We compose our lives as a poet composes a poem, line by line."
Wallace Stevens
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"We are all fragments seeking wholeness through our work."
Hilda Doolittle