Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Fran Lebowitz

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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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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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Camus, Albert

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.