Motivational Quotes

Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Camus, Albert

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

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

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Robert Heinlein

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Fran Lebowitz

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Antrim, Minna

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur