Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Kempton, Murray

13.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

16.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Lennon, John

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Michelangelo

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

Feidelson, Charles

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Russell, Lady R.

43.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Wickett, Michael

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