Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

James, William

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Samuel Butler

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.