Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Austen, Jane

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

John Lennon

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

42.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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