Motivational Quotes

Life

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

- Hayward, Jeremy W.

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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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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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 having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Presser, Ross

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Hume, David

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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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

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Lin-Chi

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les