Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Woody Allen

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Duncan, Isadora

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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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 great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Nash, Ogden

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.