Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Maclaren, Alexander

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Byron, Lord

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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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

John Lennon

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey