Motivational Quotes

Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Antrim, Minna

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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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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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.