Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

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

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Ovid

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert