Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Every biography is the sum of small moments woven together."Pearl S. Buck
"Life's meaning emerges through our engagement with it, not in some predetermined plan."Ralph Ellison
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."Toni Morrison
"In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass."Toni Morrison
"Being alive is the condition, not the achievement."Toni Morrison
"To believe that your life is insignificant is to be dead already."Toni Morrison
"We die every day in small ways. The question is whether we are resurrecting too."Toni Morrison
"Real life is here and now, not in memory or imagination."Toni Morrison
"I think it is wonderful the way you said that. Life is for the living."Langston Hughes
"I choose to live deliberately, with intention and purpose."Langston Hughes
"The plot of a life is determined less by our choices than by the choices made for us."Richard Wright
"The search for identity is never complete; it is a lifelong journey."Ralph Ellison
"We are all part of a larger tapestry woven by human experience."Ralph Ellison
"We create ourselves through the choices we make and the paths we take."Ralph Ellison
"To live is to engage in a constant process of self-creation."Ralph Ellison
"Every path has its puddles."Zora Neale Hurston
"I did not just want to exist in this world; I wanted to live in it."Zora Neale Hurston
"Try to be nobody but yourself, for all the ways in which you try to be anybody else is much wasted energy."James Baldwin
"One's past is really nothing at all compared to one's present relationship with oneself."James Baldwin
"I am what time and circumstance made me, but I am also, in a larger sense, the product of my choices."James Baldwin
"To accept oneself completely is a hard thing to do; the world has other plans for us."James Baldwin
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets."James Baldwin
"Every moment is an opportunity to begin again."Pearl S. Buck
"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."Pearl S. Buck
"The present moment is all we truly have."Pearl S. Buck
"We are not going to have a good time, any of us, all the time. That isn't the way life works."John Steinbeck
"The weight of a man's days is not measured in hours but in moments of truth."John Steinbeck
"The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at death."John Steinbeck
"Between grief and nothing I will take grief."William Faulkner
"We are all just trying to endure the human condition."William Faulkner