Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Crisp, Quentin

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Baluch, Joy

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Horace

31.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.