Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

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

Blake, William

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Lennon, John

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Dawson, Roger

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Wright, Steven

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Austen, Jane

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo