Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

10.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

13.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

15.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

16.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

17.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

18.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

19.

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

20.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

22.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

23.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

24.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

30.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

35.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

37.

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

Moses, Grandma

38.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

42.

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

Pliny The Elder

43.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

44.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

45.

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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne