Motivational Quotes

Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Wright, Steven

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Gable, Clark

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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 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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Isaac Asimov

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

37.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou