Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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.

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

Billings, Josh

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pope John XXIII

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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.

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

30.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.