Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

15.

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

Field, Joanna

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

Brodsky, Joseph

17.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

18.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

19.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

20.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

21.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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

24.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

25.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

28.

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

Foreman, George

29.

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

30.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

31.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

32.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

33.

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

Ciardi, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

37.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

Bible

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

44.

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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William