Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Boulanger, Nadia

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

37.

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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

39.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.