Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

William Shakespeare

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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 old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Aristotle

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heath, David M.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dimnet, Ernest