Motivational Quotes

Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

John Lennon

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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 have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou