Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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

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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

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

William Shakespeare

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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