Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

11.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

12.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

13.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

17.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

18.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

19.

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

Ciardi, John

20.

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

Menander of Athens

21.

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

Norris, Kathleen

22.

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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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

25.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

26.

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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Pliny The Elder

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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.

32.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

33.

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

34.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

39.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

40.

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

41.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

43.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

44.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

48.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

50.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales