Motivational Quotes

Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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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 is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Isaac Asimov

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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