Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Life

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Fran Lebowitz

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

22.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

28.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

34.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

38.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven