Motivational Quotes

Life

All of life is a foreign country.

- Kerouac, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Nash, Ogden

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul