Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Linkletter, Art

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Burns, George

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nash, Ogden

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Shields, Carol

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William