Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

William Shakespeare

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.