Motivational Quotes

Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wright, Steven

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

12.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

13.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

14.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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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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

17.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

18.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

23.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

27.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

28.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

29.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

30.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

32.

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

Cabell, James Branch

33.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

34.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Rogers, Carl

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

47.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

48.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Camus, Albert

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda