Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hume, David

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Temple, Sir William

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Michelangelo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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