Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Newman, Peter C.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Moses, Grandma

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Hayes, Helen

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

William Goldman

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Lennon, John

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Indian

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

25.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Giles, Henry

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

28.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Coallier, Steven

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Seneca

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mountain, Marian

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher