Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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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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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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