Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rivarol, Antoine

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Coallier, Steven

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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