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

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Kempton, Murray

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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Santayana, George

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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

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ciardi, John

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

Horton, Doug

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

Foreman, George

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.