Motivational Quotes

Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Life

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Barrymore, John

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

32.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Blake, William

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish