Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Ben Stein

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Presser, Ross

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Gellert

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Seneca

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

Antrim, Minna

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

William Shakespeare

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries