Motivational Quotes

Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

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

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Presser, Ross

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Proverb, German

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michelangelo

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst