Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

James, William

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Barrymore, John

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Eliot, T. S.

28.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

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

Shields, Carol

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.