Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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

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

Ciardi, John

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs