Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Blake, William

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

William Shakespeare

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Gellert

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Miller, Henry

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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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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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare