Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Burns, George

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Samuel Butler

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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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

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

Truman Capote

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Canetti, Elias

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest