Motivational Quotes

Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Best Quotes about Life

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brendan Gill

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

Miller, Henry

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Field, Joanna

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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

William Shakespeare