Motivational Quotes

Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Ovid

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Camus, Albert

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry