Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Dyer, Wayne

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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 the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Camus, Albert

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Austen, Jane

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell