Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Field, Joanna

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

11.

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

12.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Young, J. Z.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Making a life comes before making a living.

34.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

41.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

43.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

46.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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