Life Quotes

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

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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
Gertrude Stein
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"A person's life is like a book; each day is a new page to be written."
Booth Tarkington
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"Life is a journey, not a destination; enjoy the path."
Booth Tarkington
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by."
Robert Frost
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"The road not taken."
Robert Frost
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"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Robert Frost
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"Life is for the living."
Robert Frost
"Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep."
Carl Sandburg
"There is a place in the human heart for everything that happens to the human heart."
Carl Sandburg
"How sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet."
Carl Sandburg
"I have always been against people dying."
Carl Sandburg
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"The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot
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"There will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces."
T.S. Eliot
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"In my beginning is my end."
T.S. Eliot
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"The dance along the artery of the nation."
T.S. Eliot
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"We only live, only suspire, consumed by either fire or fire."
T.S. Eliot
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"Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all, the facts when you come to brass tacks."
T.S. Eliot
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"Living involves a great deal of suffering."
T.S. Eliot
"Life is a stream upon which we are all boats."
Sherwood Anderson
"Life must be lived to be endured, not merely observed."
Sherwood Anderson
"We are all works in progress."
Sherwood Anderson
"Motion is life, stillness is death."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The meaning of life is to see the world before you dies."
Ezra Pound
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"The goal is not to arrive, but to travel."
Ezra Pound
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"We are shaped by what we love and what we despise."
Booth Tarkington
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"Life is most fully lived when dedicated to something greater than oneself."
Upton Sinclair
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
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"Energy is the essence of life itself."
Robert Frost
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"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."
Gertrude Stein
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"One cannot come back too often to the question what one is and to the answer, one is oneself, one is here now."
Gertrude Stein