Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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 a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Seneca

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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