Motivational Quotes

Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Life

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Lennon, John

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

25.

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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

31.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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