Motivational Quotes

Life

My life is a battle.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Life

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

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

10.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

11.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

12.

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

Fran Lebowitz

13.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

16.

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

Truman Capote

17.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

18.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

19.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

20.

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

21.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

22.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

23.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

25.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

28.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

29.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

30.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

43.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver