Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Field, Joanna

Best Quotes about Life

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

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

Field, Joanna

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

17.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

18.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

22.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

25.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

38.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

39.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

40.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

41.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

42.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

43.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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