Motivational Quotes

Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

11.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

12.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

13.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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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.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

James, William

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.