Motivational Quotes

Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Camus, Albert

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Live poor so you can die rich.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Camus, Albert

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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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

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a state of mind.