Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Life

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

Burns, George

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Orben, Robert

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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 have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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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

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare