Motivational Quotes

Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Child, Julia

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Fields, W. C.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

10.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

11.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

12.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

13.

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

14.

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

Wright, Steven

15.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Isaac Asimov

17.

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

18.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

19.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

20.

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

Young, J. Z.

21.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

25.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

26.

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

Ovid

27.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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

30.

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

31.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

32.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

33.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

42.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

43.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North