Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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