Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Life

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Menander of Athens

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Coriolanus III

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

48.

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.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin