Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

- Claypool, Les

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Erhard, Werner

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

Temple, Sir William

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Mark Hodder

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone