Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Heath, David M.

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

Crisp, Quentin

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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 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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, German

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora