Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cook, Robert A.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Hayes, Helen

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mead, Margaret

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu