Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

10.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

11.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

15.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

18.

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

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

20.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

21.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Santayana, George

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

34.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Making a life comes before making a living.

42.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

44.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch