Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

John Lennon

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Wickett, Michael

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Simon, Neil

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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

Piatt, Don

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.