Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Norris, Kathleen

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Jordan, David Starr

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin