Motivational Quotes

Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

- Skynard, Lynard

Best Quotes about Life

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Ovid

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

John Lennon

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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

Michelangelo

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

Landers, Ann

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Those who live are those who fight.