Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Butler, Philip

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

10.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

12.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

24.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

25.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

37.

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

Daniel Akst

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

Erhard, Werner

40.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

45.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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