Motivational Quotes

Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

- Nisami

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lennon, John

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Pope John XXIII

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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 is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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

19.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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