Motivational Quotes

Life

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Pirandello, Luigi

Best Quotes about Life

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

Orben, Robert

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Clark, Frank A.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Salisbury, Harrison

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Herold, Don

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French