Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Keller, Helen

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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 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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Larkin, Philip

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.