Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rexford, Eben Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

James, William

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

Gellert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George