Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

34.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Butler, Philip

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

42.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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 art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid