Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

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

Camus, Albert

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

Alacia Bessette

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Russell, Lady R.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Broun, Heywood

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

James, William

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Isaac Asimov

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry