Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Erhard, Werner

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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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 best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Austen, Jane

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey