Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

May, Rollo

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Brendan Gill

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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