Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nash, Ogden

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Erhard, Werner

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

41.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.