Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, 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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Santayana, George

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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.

42.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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