Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Conrad, Joseph

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dickens, Charles

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Brendan Gill

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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 a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Presser, Ross

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest