Life Quotes

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

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"We only live, only suspire consumed by either fire or fire."
T.S. Eliot
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"The life of one man is a chaos of delight and madness."
T.S. Eliot
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"We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men."
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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"To be alive is to be conscious of error."
T.S. Eliot
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"In my end is my beginning."
T.S. Eliot
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"Meaning is found in small moments."
T.S. Eliot
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"A man's life is important not because it is long, but because he participates in something eternal."
Ezra Pound
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"To live is to choose, and to choose is to commit oneself to a path."
Ezra Pound
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
Maya Angelou
"My life has been the poem I would have wished to write."
Maya Angelou
"Each of us deserves the gift of a fulfilled life."
Maya Angelou
"Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep."
Carl Sandburg
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"Legacy is what we leave behind."
Toni Cade Bambara
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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 woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep."
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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"Life is what happens while you're busy thinking about it."
Robert Frost
"Being alive is the real work."
Toni Morrison
"The most important thing is to play the game that is being played."
Toni Morrison
"In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass."
Toni Morrison
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"I felt I was not really living, but merely existing."
Richard Wright
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"I have chosen to live deliberately and consciously."
Richard Wright
"Without individuals we have no life."
Ralph Ellison
"Life demands that we live fully or not at all."
Ralph Ellison
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"The issue is not just about survival, but about the quality of that survival."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"The world is not just made up of big stories. It's made up of small moments."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"To be fully alive means to embrace both joy and sorrow without denial."
Richard Wright
"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."
Maya Angelou
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"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
Langston Hughes