Motivational Quotes

Life

Only those live who do good.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Coriolanus III

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Socrates

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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