Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Life

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Steve Jobs

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

Platen

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard