Motivational Quotes

Life

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Pope John XXIII

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Byron, Lord

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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 indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Larkin, Philip

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan