Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

31.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

33.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas