Motivational Quotes

Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

- Harrison, George

Best Quotes about Life

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, 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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

35.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean