Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Camus, Albert

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Erickson, Lou

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

John Lennon

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Landers, Ann

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan