Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

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

Coallier, Steven

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Erhard, Werner

11.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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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

15.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

24.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Making a life comes before making a living.

28.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

29.

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

30.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

31.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

32.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

35.

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

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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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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar