Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who live are those who fight.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Samuel Butler

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

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Isaac Asimov

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Ovid

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell