Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Samuel Butler

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Linkletter, Art

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.