Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Coallier, Steven

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Southey, Robert

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Walpole, Horace

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher