Motivational Quotes

Life

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

- Kornfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Brodsky, Joseph

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

10.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

11.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

12.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

13.

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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

16.

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

17.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

18.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

19.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

22.

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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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Temple, Sir William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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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

41.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Fields, W. C.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren