Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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