Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Nash, Ogden

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Truman Capote

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Shields, Carol

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Horace

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

May, Rollo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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