Motivational Quotes

Life

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Debevoise, P. L.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

24.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Mark Hodder

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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