Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Feidelson, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

John Lennon

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Robert Heinlein

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Aristotle

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Presser, Ross

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi