Motivational Quotes

Life

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Camus, Albert

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

Epicurus

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

42.

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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

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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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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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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.