Motivational Quotes

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

John Lennon

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Truman Capote

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Simon, Neil

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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 is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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 slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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.