Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mountain, Marian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Duncan, Isadora

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Bacon, Francis

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Samuel Butler

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

28.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Dante Alighieri

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herold, Don

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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