Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

William Shakespeare

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Dryden, John

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.