Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

William Goldman

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.