Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Robert Heinlein

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