Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

- Henry J. Tillman

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

James, William

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Orben, Robert

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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