Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Aleichem, Sholom

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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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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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

26.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.