Motivational Quotes

Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Boulanger, Nadia

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Blake, William

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Piatt, Don

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Dane, Frank

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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