Motivational Quotes

Life

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Shakespeare, William

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Ovid

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dickens, Charles

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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 slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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 interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Moses, Grandma