Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Isaac Asimov

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Field, Joanna

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Mountain, Marian

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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 not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Leno, Jay

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey