Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herold, Don

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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 comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Newman, Peter C.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Antrim, Minna

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

43.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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