Motivational Quotes

Life

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gurney, Robert

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Brendan Gill

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

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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 best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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