Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Antrim, Minna

10.

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

11.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

12.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

13.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

14.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

15.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

16.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

17.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

18.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

19.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

22.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

23.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

24.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

25.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

26.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

27.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

28.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

29.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

31.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

32.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Proverb, German

34.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

35.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

36.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

43.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

44.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

45.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

47.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

48.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

49.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

50.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De