Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Keller, Helen

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.