Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Southey, Robert

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis