Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves the liver of it.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Broun, Heywood

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Camus, Albert

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Samuel Butler

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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 is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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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 always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca