Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Barrymore, John

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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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

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

Menander of Athens

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Butler

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri