Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Barrymore, John

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart