Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Butler, Samuel

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

17.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

18.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

19.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Proverb, German

21.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Socrates

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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

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

Samuel Butler

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

31.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

49.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru