Motivational Quotes

Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Clark, Frank A.

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.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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 pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Harington, Donald

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Welsh, John

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Herold, Don

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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