Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Havel, Vaclav

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Brendan Gill

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

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Erhard, Werner

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Pope John XXIII

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

James, William

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Heinlein

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Horace

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey