Motivational Quotes

Life

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.