Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Gellert

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Tomlin, Lily