Motivational Quotes

Life

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Best Quotes about Life

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Caesar, Sid

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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.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

49.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert