Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rogers, Carl

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Presser, Ross

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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 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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Antrim, Minna

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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 is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma