Motivational Quotes

Life

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Wright, Steven

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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 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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Live poor so you can die rich.