Motivational Quotes

Life

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

- Basset, Lucinda

Best Quotes about Life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Camus, Albert

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Allen, Fred A.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Blake, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Lennon, John