Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Horton, Doug

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Alacia Bessette

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Lin-Chi

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De