Motivational Quotes

Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Hanks, Tom

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

13.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Welsh, John

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Wright, Steven

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

William Shakespeare

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a state of mind.