Motivational Quotes

Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Forster, Edward M.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Austen, Jane

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Russell, Lady R.

15.

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

Isaac Asimov

16.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

18.

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

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

22.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

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

24.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

25.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

28.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

29.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

33.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

34.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

35.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

37.

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

Field, Joanna

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

40.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

43.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

44.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

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

Seneca

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

48.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

49.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

50.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd