Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

- Claypool, Les

Best Quotes about Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fuller, Thomas

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Fields, W. C.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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 never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.