Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Butler, Samuel

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Conrad, Joseph

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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