Life Quotes

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

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"The present moment is where all creation occurs."
Hilda Doolittle
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"The great business of life is living."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The quality of life is measured by growth."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Duty and desire can be reconciled."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Life itself is the proper binge."
Fannie Hurst
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Fannie Hurst
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste mine."
Fannie Hurst
"Do not pity the dead, pity the living."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
Fannie Hurst
"The measure of a life well-lived is not in years but in moments of impact."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is neither a problem to be solved nor a mystery to be solved."
Marianne Moore
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"I have a rendezvous with life, not death."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Life is not a dress rehearsal; this is the real thing."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Life is what we make of it; always has been, always will be."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Amy Lowell
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"To live is to constantly negotiate between what we are and what we wish to become."
Amy Lowell
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"The present moment is the only place where life actually occurs."
Amy Lowell
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."
Fannie Hurst
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things."
Wallace Stevens
"From this the poem springs; that we live in a place that is not our own."
Wallace Stevens
"One can live or act or know, but cannot do all three together."
Wallace Stevens
"We must accept reality and then transcend it with the imagination."
Wallace Stevens
"Life is not ideas about life, but life itself."
Wallace Stevens
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"Turn up the lights. I don't know what time it is."
O. Henry
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."
O. Henry
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"The trouble with New York is that it's all in front of you."
O. Henry
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"Life is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
O. Henry
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"The role we have to play in the world is the only one that matters."
Kate Chopin