Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mountain, Marian

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

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Wright, Steven

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Norman Thomas

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Socrates

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

Ward, William A.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Hume, David

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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 a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George