Motivational Quotes

Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Lennon, John

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

Epicurus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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 never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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

Gellert

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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 a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

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