Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Blake, William

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.