Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Kempton, Murray

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Canetti, Elias

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

McMillan, Terry

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Baluch, Joy

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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 is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone