Motivational Quotes

Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Socrates

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Isaac Asimov

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross