Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Austen, Jane

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

John Lennon

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

James, William

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

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Proverb, German

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Gellert

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

James, William

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

43.

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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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 purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma