Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

11.

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

Gellert

12.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

14.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

17.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

19.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

20.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

21.

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

Young, J. Z.

22.

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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

25.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

26.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

27.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

28.

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 is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

30.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

31.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

32.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Norris, Kathleen

44.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

45.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Foreman, George