Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Pritchett, V. S.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Camus, Albert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Fields, W. C.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Epicurus