Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Daniel Akst

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark