Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mead, Margaret

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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 longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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 is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Making a life comes before making a living.

31.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

32.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

James, William

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Simon, Neil

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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 rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer