Life Quotes

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

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"Anybody who is anybody is alive and in America."
Gertrude Stein
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"Everything in life is repetition and that is a strange thing to say."
Gertrude Stein
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"Something is always happening everywhere always."
Gertrude Stein
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"It is so easy to go on being alive."
Gertrude Stein
"The people, yes, they are alive, they are alive."
Carl Sandburg
"Life itself is the proper binge."
Carl Sandburg
"I have tasted life and found it good."
Carl Sandburg
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"We are whole people. We don't need to fragment ourselves."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started."
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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"In my end is my beginning."
T.S. Eliot
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"What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage."
Ezra Pound
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"All of life flows from form."
Ezra Pound
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"Nothing matters except intensity, depth, and truth of feeling."
Ezra Pound
"Life loves the liver of it."
Maya Angelou
"We are not made to understand life; we are made to live it."
Maya Angelou
"I have turned corners I didn't know were there."
Maya Angelou
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"If you don't have a plan for your life, you'll fall into someone else's plan."
Toni Cade Bambara
"The people, yes - they are the foundation of all things."
Carl Sandburg
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
Carl Sandburg
"I am the people - I am the sum of all voices."
Carl Sandburg
"The voice of the common person is the song of the nation."
Carl Sandburg
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"What is the use of being a little boy if you are going to grow up to be a man."
Gertrude Stein
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"Why should I do anything for after life when all I want to do is live waking."
Gertrude Stein
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by."
Robert Frost
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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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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
Robert Frost
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"I have often had the fancy that if I were to live my life over again, I would alter almost nothing."
Robert Frost
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"You cannot have everything at once; you have to choose and not choose and choose again."
Robert Frost
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"Distracted from distraction by distraction."
T.S. Eliot