Motivational Quotes

Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kempton, Murray

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Keller, Helen

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

28.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

31.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Making a life comes before making a living.

39.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay