Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Erickson, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Philip

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

William Shakespeare

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.