Motivational Quotes

Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Young, J. Z.

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

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Woody Allen

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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