Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nash, Ogden

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

William Goldman

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Jordan, David Starr

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

49.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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