Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

11.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

12.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Samuel Butler

15.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

16.

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

17.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

20.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

21.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

25.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

26.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

30.

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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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

34.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

35.

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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Harington, Donald

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

40.

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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

43.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

45.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

46.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

47.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

48.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

49.

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

Larkin, Philip

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