Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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 is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Truman Capote

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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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

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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