Motivational Quotes

Life

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

Hume, David

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Woody Allen

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Herold, Don

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

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

Santayana, George

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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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