Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Austen, Jane

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

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

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

Erhard, Werner

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Santayana, George

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Shields, Carol

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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

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les