Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

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

Truman Capote

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Brendan Gill

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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 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

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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 a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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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

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Simon, Neil

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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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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder