Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Truman Capote

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Landers, Ann

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Barrymore, John

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.