Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

- Better, Cathy

Best Quotes about Life

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

12.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Austen, Jane

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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