Motivational Quotes

Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Platen

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

Osler, Sir William

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

17.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

21.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

26.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

30.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

32.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

33.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

49.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas