Motivational Quotes

Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Best Quotes about Life

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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 is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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 optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu