Motivational Quotes

Life

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Life

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

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Heath, David M.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Santayana, George

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul