Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Russell, Bertrand

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gellert

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Forster, Edward M.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren