Motivational Quotes

Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

William Shakespeare

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Dane, Frank

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Young, J. Z.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Miller, Henry

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene