Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Mark Hodder

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hanks, Tom

38.

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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav