Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Harington, Donald

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Pliny The Elder

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

McMillan, Terry

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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Mark Hodder

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar