Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brendan Gill

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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

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Truman Capote

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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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

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Young, J. Z.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ciardi, John

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard