Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Persian

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Keller, Helen

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Fran Lebowitz

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hewitt, George T.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

33.

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

Powell, Robert

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Dickens, Charles

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.