Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

William Shakespeare

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Rogers, Carl

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carson, Rachel

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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