Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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 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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Giles, Henry

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.