Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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 is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

23.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Truman Capote

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert