Motivational Quotes

Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Camus, Albert

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Samuel Butler

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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 man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord