Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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 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! 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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

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

John Lennon

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Menander of Athens

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Shields, Carol

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Dane, Frank

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

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley