Motivational Quotes

Life

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Blake, William

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

Robert Heinlein

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Isaac Asimov

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George