Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Presser, Ross

Best Quotes about Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

James, William

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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 a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Simon, Neil

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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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Presser, Ross

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Pasternak, Boris

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur