Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Facult, F. Paul

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren