Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gable, Clark

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Wright, Steven

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Conrad, Joseph

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert