Motivational Quotes

Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Child, Julia

Best Quotes about Life

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Giles, Henry

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Truman Capote

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Hayes, Helen

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Rogers, Carl

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert