Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Dawson, Roger

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

13.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

27.

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

Moses, Grandma

28.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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