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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Dickens, Charles

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Newman, Peter C.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 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

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Canetti, Elias

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen