Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dimnet, Ernest

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.

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

William Shakespeare

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

39.

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

Barrymore, John

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

Powell, Robert

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.