Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

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

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Antrim, Minna

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

May, Rollo

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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 is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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