Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

William Shakespeare

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Thibodeau, Robert

26.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Havel, Vaclav

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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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