Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves the liver of it.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Camus, Albert

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Camus, Albert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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.