Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Life

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Making a life comes before making a living.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

11.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

13.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

14.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

15.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

16.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

18.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

19.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

20.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

22.

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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

24.

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

Michelangelo

25.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

26.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

27.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

28.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

29.

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

30.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

31.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

32.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

33.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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 not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

36.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

42.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

44.

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

John Lennon

45.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

46.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

49.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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