Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

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

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Hayes, Helen

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

10.

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

Simon, Neil

11.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

12.

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

13.

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

Pliny The Elder

14.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

15.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

16.

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

Proverb, Persian

17.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

18.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

McMillan, Terry

20.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

James, William

22.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

23.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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.

25.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

26.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

27.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

33.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

40.

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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.

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

44.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

45.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

48.

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

49.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt