Motivational Quotes

Life

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

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)

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

11.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

John Lennon

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

Santayana, George

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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 no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert