Motivational Quotes

Life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Welsh, John

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Heath, David M.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Aristotle