Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

- Presser, Ross

Best Quotes about Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Woody Allen

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Wright, Steven

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Samuel Butler

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Clark, Frank A.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Pliny The Elder

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Field, Joanna

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.