Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Harington, Donald

Best Quotes about Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aristotle

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

28.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

29.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Making a life comes before making a living.

33.

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

34.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.