Motivational Quotes

Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

Shields, Carol

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Presser, Ross

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

42.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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