Motivational Quotes

Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Herold, Don

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

May, Rollo

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

Moses, Grandma

10.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

12.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

13.

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

Austen, Jane

14.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

20.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

21.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

25.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

28.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

32.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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

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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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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

40.

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

41.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

46.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

48.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Norris, Kathleen