Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Welsh, John

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Byron, Lord

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

14.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

15.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

19.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

21.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

26.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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