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

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Miller, Henry

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

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

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Isaac Asimov

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Antrim, Minna

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Santayana, George

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick