Motivational Quotes

Life

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Life

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Cioran, E. M.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Canetti, Elias

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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 full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane