Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Live poor so you can die rich.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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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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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Truman Capote

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Lennon

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

Dante Alighieri

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette