Motivational Quotes

Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

13.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

16.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

17.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

24.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

27.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

28.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

29.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

31.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

32.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

34.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

36.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

40.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

43.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is just one damned thing after another.