Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Presser, Ross

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Austen, Jane

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will