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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent