Motivational Quotes

Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Blake, William

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Philip

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Santayana, George

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fields, W. C.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Wickett, Michael

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

James, William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Mark Hodder

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.