Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

19.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John