Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Russell, Bertrand

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Heath, David M.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Camus, Albert

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo