Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Ciardi, John

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

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

William Goldman

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Allen, Fred A.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Seneca

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Pope John XXIII

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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