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 a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lennon, John

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Woody Allen

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

Leacock, Stephen B.