Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Wright, Steven

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Isaac Asimov

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran