Motivational Quotes

Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

- O'Reilly, Radar

Best Quotes about Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

10.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

11.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

12.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

23.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

25.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

30.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Fran Lebowitz

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

36.

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

Hewitt, George T.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.