Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dyer, Wayne

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Alacia Bessette

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Robert Heinlein

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Butler, Philip

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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 a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.