Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Wickett, Michael

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Blake, William

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dawson, Roger

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria