Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Alacia Bessette

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

Kennedy, John F.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

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.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Isaac Asimov

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Proverb, Persian

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Coallier, Steven

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora