Motivational Quotes

Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

- Field, Joanna

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Hewitt, George T.

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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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.