Motivational Quotes

Life

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Samuel Butler

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

William Goldman

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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