Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

10.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

11.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

19.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Seneca

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

John Lennon

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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

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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

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Horace

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Socrates

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.