Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mead, Margaret

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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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 like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

22.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Wright, Steven

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Real life seems to have no plots.