Motivational Quotes

Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

- Debevoise, P. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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 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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lin-Chi

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Wright, Steven

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

32.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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