Motivational Quotes

Life

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

- Smith, Lillian

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

14.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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 so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Lennon, John

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Making a life comes before making a living.

28.

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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Byron, Lord

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Eliot, T. S.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

43.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William