Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wright, Steven

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

John Lennon

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shields, Carol

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.